Originally Posted by
jcool734
With them posting that they are hiring again are they going to be expanding. Does anyone know the game plan.
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Unfortunately I'm just a pilot that takes the plane where they ask me to so I don't know the plan. They haven't told us the post COVID spooling up details yet. I'm sure there will be some more info at the next pilot call in June, also pending to see how loads and bookings are for the capacity added back. For what it's worth we are adding a good amount of flights back for June, but aside from that I don't know how rapidly they plan to come back. We still have about 2/3 of the pilot group on reduced pay "no-fly" lines or UTO, some routes are still suspended, new airplane acquisitions are still on hold, and the last class of new hires that finished sims in late February still hasn't gone through IOE, and probably won't until the fall. I believe the latest requisition is just to screen into a pool that will be called as the growth restarts, but before that happens all the current pilots need to be back in the seat and all current planes need to get flying again.
Just my speculation is that for that to happen they will first build back our network as it was in early February, then open the originally announced new destinations PDX, RNO and MRY, and then see from there. Unless they're able to get some new deal or partnership out of this new situation that originally wasn't planned, but we won't know if anything happens until it actually does.