Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
From the MEC Update:
“New hire classes run weekly with the target of 65-75 pilots per class. The company plans to increase this number.”
Heard the new hire classrooms in the new H building can hold 150 pilots. It will be interesting to see what happens at other airlines as we hire many of their pilots away from them. I’m hearing stories from FOs about their friends at “Brand X” that were given a job offer but ended up turning it down because they didn’t want to “give up seniority” whatever that is supposed to mean. Not sure that the some of the other airlines will be able to staff their deliveries if we hire even more of their pilots than we currently are.
Seems like a lot of hype. Last I read the FAA is making all the airlines cut capacity at the 3 New York airport's because they don't have enough controllers. Can the infrastructure even handle all this UAL growth?