Originally Posted by
Airsupport
i flew with a guy on the interview team on friday. he said they have gone from 20 guys at a time to 10. and they have gone from a class starting every monday, to every other monday. but they are still hiring, and still trying to get everyone they can. we still had 5 captain vacancies go unfilled on the last bid.
I think there we're short on captains because so many FO's make lateral moves and/or are hired with 200-400 hours and take a good 3 years to hit captain mins. Just a guess.