Originally Posted by
tonsterboy5
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.
AW also has a single type fleet.
OO has to have instructors for 2 types, and then within the CRJ, there is an additional 700-900 training event that has to happen.
LCA groups have to exist for CRJ2 CRJ7 CRJ9 & ERJ175.
This means there are more training events and more line checks in order to fly the line than a company like AW.
It’s simply not an apples to apples comparison.