Originally Posted by
DLax85
Jan is their plan --- for internal pilots (...professional instructors and corporate pilots who have fulfilled their committments to those departments).
I think those guys will have plenty of notice, because their managers have to backfill their slots.
External hiring from the "current pool" may not happen until Feb or even March --- and my guess is 2-4 weeks notice for those guys.
The real unkown is when will the meet-n-greets and interviews start again for pilots not in the current pool.
There will be a need for at least 90-100 new hire pilots next year.
In an almost identical situation (long hiring drought, Pro instructors well past completing commitment,) the 8 pros in my class had Thursday afternoon calls for a Monday class. They even asked if I could stop by hiring office on
Friday, because they could not get the offer letter to me by Fedex prior to class starting (prior to Fedex Saturday delivery service.)