Originally Posted by
Drums4life
So got an update email from SkyWest today. It looks like there is about 120 still in the pool from the amount of email addresses and if it's in order hopefully I'm in the top 40. Looks like attrition is steady at 20 a month still and with the arrival of the 700's starting in Dec. just maybe things will be picking up early next year. Really hoping this works out cause I'm tired of hanging on to my current job and really looking forward to SKW. I'd be tempted to take the Brasilia to start sooner but I think I would go to the bottom of the pool list on that plus I'd really prefer to stay on the East coast, we'll see though.
Negative my friend, attrition is not steady at 20 per month. My friend started class in Nov. 07 at # 2800 and is now 2653. That's 147 spots in 9.5 months or 15.4 per month. As for me, I actually fell back 2 spots over the last 3 weeks and have only moved up 32 spots since May. That's 32/4=8 per month. So that means that most of our attrition is on the FO side.
In other words, attrition is not holding steady, it is decreasing and probably fluctuating between 10-15 per month with some dipping below 10.
As for the CR7's, that's not going to be enough to start running RJ classes. Plus when they do the classes will be full of transitioning EMB FO's with any new hire classes being EMB. My prediction is that there won't be a new hire RJ class until 2Q of 09.
Good Luck.