Originally Posted by
CherieBerry
New email from our president states we are going to start hiring pilots again! No time table but sounded like immediately.
I agree with nearly everything RB said in that email. There will be a summer rush as states begin to reopen. Mostly leisure travelers at first, but hopefully businesses realize that flying is going to become safer with the vaccines starting to kill infection counts, and they will eventually come back.
Now is the right time to start training. If they have a class in April, the new pilots will be getting on IOE around June. I'd suspect that they will start scheduling the first class no later than mid-April to take full advantage of this opportunity.
I would not be surprised if there was another realignment with lots of upgrades soon to be able to utilize all those new FOs.