Originally Posted by
Stayontarget
Who told you this in HQ?
Ive heard otherwise from Check airmen and Management. In the end it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is when you class date really comes and what our attrition really ends up being.
Again, we are now at 15.4 pilots per plane. Open time is a ghost town and has been for a while. So Ive revised the number of pilots needed to only 15 per plane and we still would need to hire about 35 per month to cover the fleet. That assumes the 30% attrition rate continues and no aircraft groundings. Either one of those can change the equation overnight.
Also, as plane joe mentions. We haven’t moved to day trips yet. It takes 3-6 months for a complete schedule change. It won’t really start happening until spring. So how can they know how much people love it?
Apparently one of the mentors told a cadet, among other things, that
25 aircraft were going to be affected by the inspections. I can't really confirm that.
The bonus is gone, though the cadets still get the stipend and paid ATP. I can confirm that, BL sent a video to the pool pilots that was forwarded to me. All pre-employement bonuses are gone effective immediately.