Originally Posted by
iH8registering
I just don’t think they’re going to entice that many people into coming here. They said they wanted 600 this year, and yet they’re only now around 314 in mid October. I’m starting to wonder how many of those 314 are actually going to complete training, considering the number that are still in training from the first part of the year. I also think that we might see quite a few people leave via the new Frontier deal. If you throw the normal attrition in on top of that it doesn’t look good for growth. I could be wrong. You could be wrong. If I’m not mistaken, we are also continuing to lose aircraft to CommutAir. Theres also the question of additional 175s being added to the fleet. Sure, there are rumors of that, but I hear all kinds of rumors all the time that never become reality.
That’s fair. Just seems to me the high upgrade time was the biggest knock on ExpressJet for recruiting. When I have talked to recruiters it has always kind of been the elephant in the room for them. They got the first 200 or so with a 7 year upgrade and the rest with almost 4. I might be wrong but I think a lot of people will see the low upgrade time combined with immediate class availability and they will want to come here.