Originally Posted by
AirBear
Management told the recurrent class hiring mins are being lowered to 1500 hours, 250 multi. They're also willing to look at someone without a full ATP, but if you bust your initial checkride you're out the door. Info is confirmed by Union Reps. Hiring mins on the website have not been updated yet.
I'll let others speculate on the reasons, all I read was that they felt a lot of good applicants were being left behind because of the 2500hr requirement. Think military fighter types. I've also read 1st year attrition is something like 30% so that could have something to do with it, but that is speculation which I said I wouldn't do.
I called this one. I bet they start doing training contracts in the near future as well. It’s a smart move and one they should have done a while ago. Hire pilots that aren’t competitive to leave for a few years.