Originally Posted by
dmspilot
It appears that the company is hiring FOs, but as others have written, it is at least 6 months if not longer, and I would expect hiring to be much more competitive than it was in the recent past. The captain imbalance is still getting worse. I'm not sure what management's strategy is, or even if they have one, but I wouldn't be surprised if FO hiring slows down even more or stops.
I hope I’m wrong but I don’t foresee the company doing anything to try and retain captains/high time FOs until it’s farrrrr too late. We’ve started losing some of the super senior “lifer” capts and Aviate moving the goalposts has made some of the original Aviate FOs I know (who had planned to upgrade here and stick around) start applying to LCCs instead. Frankly I hope every newer FO sitting 8 hours of airport standby and flying <15 hours a month has their app out to F9 or NK at this point because they won’t have lines anyyyyytime soon even with 60 hours being the bottom of our min credit window now.