Originally Posted by
MrBogardi
As a new hire at HAL hope for the 787 and expect the 717. There are rumors that class drops have specifically been changed to give someone the 717 who didn’t want it. A test to their commitment to the company. Not sure if that’s what actually happened or if post merger management would continue that tradition. You won’t make any friends complaining about the 717 if you get awarded it though.
what happened was somebody that wanted 330 freight got awarded 717 on first day of indoc. Because he was junior. He quit and walked out of class. After that the company runs separate first day of indocs for freight and then combines the class with the other fleet new hires so that doesn’t happen anymore.
a while back there were a few 787 new hire FOs, but generally 787 vacancies are filled by current pilots