Thank you for the insight, I didn’t want the recruiters to sell me a dream. What is the reason that hiring has slowed, is the company bleeding FOs to legacies still?

I love the concept, I wish things would improve for you guys. It seems like a lot of grief currently.

That’s on the table, I’m a bit apprehensive to leave with Regional CA pay being 150 these days. I have a interview at F9 as well. Ultimate goal is to be at the legacies, not sure if getting a 320 type will speed that up, or hanging in there for upgrade. Love the concept of Allegiant, and would love to be VPS CA, could see myself making that a career. But F9 may be a better option.

The company is losing FO’s to regionals and the big 4.

I was more referring to being able to get one's desired base when so little hiring is happening. I agree the small base reserve isn't a bad deal. I bet that it goes way more senior if a new contract increases total days off, pay etc on reserve.

GRR had 2 spots offered to a recent class, FNT had zero. While they may have been junior when they were new, that can quickly change when the bases are so small.

Losing FO's to regionals should be a huge eye opener. But I guess enough planes aren't being parked or they plan to shrink.

While anything can happen, all perspective new hires should plan for 6 months in FNT, DSM, KATW, or KABE.

Anything can happen though as we are rapidly losing pilots. If you actually live in one of the above cities this may be a great opportunity for you. Having said that it is unclear whether we can sustain our small base strategy or not.

Our lack of contract is really hurting us. And our managements tactic of now moving in a regressive direction has made everyone’s worst dreams come true in that it could be another year or 2 to get something done.

At this point, I personally am no longer worried about the contract but instead worry that we may not even survive as an airline. I think the focus should turn to merger with Sun Country or Frontier.

I think the next few months will be telling - do enough Allegiant pilots finally wake up & look past their next months’ home-every-night schedule to realize the long-term implications of missing this hiring wave? If you see attrition start to snowball to where it’s 25,30,40 per month then this place won’t be able to downsize or recalibrate fast enough to avoid meltdown.

If it continues at the current 15 or 20 per month then I think with some targeted base closings & downsizing they can still make it work enough to remain viable.

It'll only take a month or two of large attrition to bring things to meltdown mode. The downside with the microbase strategy is, if 3-4++ guys bail in a given month from a microbase, the base falls apart and basically shuts down. We saw this to a lesser extent earlier this year when half the LA FO's bailed in about a month.