Originally Posted by
KirillTheThrill
I doubt you have a clue what the wait time is at OO from Checkride to IOE (neither do I, but I won’t pretend to know). Second, I’m not giving out too much credit to OO management, but do you realize what it takes to push through 250 new hires a month? For example all 3 legacy’s on their best years have pushed closer to 100-120 a month with a much larger operation and pilot group. So saying “lowest hiring numbers relative to their size” tells me you know enough, and have decided to use that information to deceive your audience.
From friends still at OO, they told me SkyWest lost 150 pilots last month (potential record), but gained 100 (hired 250). Most in the group chat weren’t thrilled about that “accomplishment” because it just proves their management doesn’t have to do a thing to recruit pilots, other than show they hold a strong business (that could change as the available pilots dry up, which they will eventually).
One of my good friends is currently waiting for OE, while at the sim center yesterday the Skywest guys were *****ing about how they would have to wait till after Christmas for OE. I get that hiring 250 pilots a month is huge, but look at smaller airlines. Air Wisconsin is hiring 40-50 per month with a seniority list of 550. That’s 10% of the seniority list every month. Sky west is hiring 250 for 5500 or under 5%. Air Wisconsin has a large delay for the sims but almost no delay for classes.