Originally Posted by
Excargodog
And it would be prudent to anticipate for career planning purposes that at least half of those slots will be filled with military or other OTS hires, not flow from Horizon. Barring growth at Alaska, it would be a slow slog. But even a 2% annual growth would increase pilots by 40 new hires a year.
This was similar to my line of thinking. For where I’m at in time flown at QX and seniority it would take me about 6 years to flow up to AS. I have heard from an AS pilot that the air group is hemorrhaging ex Virgin airbus pilots, which is explains why they’re hiring so much into the bus. Like others have mentioned there will be more movement for various other reasons. I just hope that an economic downturn, when it does inevitably happen, doesn’t slow hiring down or start driving hiring requirements up to the pretentious levels that they have been.