Originally Posted by
Pahlot
Current 767 class has been sent home until June. August 767 didn't start back til December. September Class not back until January. Both 747 and 777 classes being split so it's pure luck if you snag a shorter break but still looking at 7-12+ weeks, 74 classes from this month til Feb-March. Not seeing a lot of 6 week averages unless of course you averaged the entire year when there wasn't as much of a backlog.
I think the operative part of your quote is;
Anyone you'd have met recently that has finished training and is online are those that managed to get in well before proverbial hit the fan and the backlogs really built up.
Correct, I was reviewing data from 2022 for an average. Longer breaks started occurring the latter part of the year.
Class size and starts are already being adjusted for 2023 to allow system to catch up.
The irony is there are still lots of folks stating “Atlas will not be able to hire enough to cover attrition”
No one knows for sure where attrition will go, although it is presently at about half what it was at the beginning of the year.
So company is presently in a position where there is a huge block of new hires as new airframes are coming onboard.
Incidentally, this seems to be an industry wide phenomenon, RJ outfits can’t train fast enough and are parking candidates and cancelling FO classes. Even United sent a large portion of their students home for a block of time.