Originally Posted by
PilotPanda
I'd mostly like to hear that they for sure aren't going to flush the pool. I want to see it from the top in writing. That they are going to honor old job offers in the order they were originally scheduled. We have no assurance they're not going to replace the pool with Compass and Express Jet folks who blow me out of the water and I have no way to compete with. If I was in management I sure would. But I hope they don't.
They won't commit to not flushing because they don't know either way yet. It depends on how long things drag out. At some point they would want to start clean and re-interview (possibly with priority for poolies). It's not so much that they want to replace you with furloughed pilots (they could have already done that), it's that after a year or three poolies might not be as current as they were, or worse might have acquired some employment, FAA, or legal blackmarks. From the HR perspective poolies do have a "shelf-life". How long exactly is subjective.
If I had to guess they will stick with poolies for a while, and are not in a big rush to hire furloughs from defunct airlines. Turbine experienced new-hires are especially helpful when movement is fast because they require less training on average. But since they're in no hurry right now they may prefer to hire the folks they want and spend the resources to train and develop them.