Originally Posted by
rickair7777
We actually have no seat lock for new hires, and it was a big PITA for the company while the bus was around. But you have to recall that AS has been a multi-fleet airline in the past, I know guys who flew MD's and 727's. Not sure why they didn't have the lock at all.
So I would expect some sort of seat lock, but probably something that is not effectively three years. In the short term, that would actually be a recruiting challenge for a company that has an incentive to hire pilots from specific niche locations.
at Hawaiian they started doing all freight indoc classes so that the guys that wanted 330 frieght would know they were getting it before showing up to class. One day is indoc for freight and the next day would be indoc for the other fleets. They would then join both classes together for the remainder of indoc. It was the fix cuz several new hires quit day one once they weren’t awarded 330 freight.