Originally Posted by
SFORedwood
I’ve been offered an early February orientation date. I’m on the fence about all of this puzzle. Can someone with some insight about future direct entry captains answer a couple questions? I would like to know how many they are proposing on hiring so I can have some idea of whether i’ll be the last guy, so to speak. Do you know how many classes they run per month or per week and how many people are generally in a class? How many direct entry pilots were in the January classes? Lastly, what is the probability of getting ORD as a base?
It's funny, Envoy talks about quality of life, but there is a huge difference between being based in MIA vs DFW vs ORD, seems they would want to try & give you your preference of bases.....
I get that i'll probably be on reserve at the airport for a long time, but i'd rather be in a base where I know people.
Maybe a recruiter will answer the top part but even then I’d be wary of that information just because things change quickly and their main job is to recruit. From the sound of it and looking at the recent classes on our end it looks like they have started to slowly add some true FOs back to the mix but I don’t know if that is just because they can’t fill a whole class full of DECs or if they’re just wanting to get the FO pipeline going again.
There is currently a standing vacancy bid for DCL and OCL so hypothetically you could bid OCL day 1. They of course want to try and give you your base of choice, especially as a DEC, but seniority still rules.
If you do decide to take it welcome to the team, should have a slushee machine in the crew room any day now
