kevin_p

It sounds like you guys are actually being assigned a "side" earlier than in previous classes. When I got the email confirming my class date in May of this year, they asked which side we preferred, but no one actually ended up with a choice. They assigned guys living in PHL to AA and others who live in DFW and LAX got US.

We found out just a few days before class if we were assigned to AA or US. Hopefully they've switched it to allow more people to choose what works best for them.

hawgdriver

I'm glad they didn't forget us either. It was a long wait for the CJO (9 months) after the f2f. I'm definitely accepting the job offer. I don't care if I go to AA or US. Currently I'm sitting in the Middle East flying combat missions. I have no idea what comes next but I can finally exhale.

Sliceback

So true.

Guy called me this week - "I just got hired." My hair stood on end, it's a huge moment.

Congratulations.

billyho

From what I understand they will try to accommodate what side you want all through 2016. Hear they will be running classes of about 40 every two weeks in 2016. I'm sure there will be some slow months but enjoy the ride for all those hired.

Sliceback

^^^ that's 1000/year +/-

80/month = 30 AE, 13 PSA/PDT = 37 OTS.


Previous guidance was 750/year. Some comments of 800/year.

Name User

Do we need to hire that many? PBS is going to reduce staffing even more. 2015 was stagnant at least as far as US goes. I even went backward.

Thedude

That is what I am saying too.
When we finally achieve a single AOC/FOS next year, I think we will see a reduction.

Sliceback

Here's a complication for the OTS guys - recallees reduce the OTS count but don't impact the flow count.

Rough WAG is 300 OTS in 2016 minus recallees.

Company WAG is 100-150 will accept recall by the drop dead date of May 6th. Leaves 150-200 OTS slots.

Cheddar

Congrats to all of the OTS Jan Interviews! I hear there may be more than a few conditional offers received today???

Cheddar

This is the curious thing. Early on in this hiring wave, when I was in indoc a question was asked of one of the VPs about why we had only announced hiring for 500ish (I can't even remember the number now) when Delta/UAL were looking at 800-1000 publicly. The VP was quick to say that "this management group" was verrrry concerned about wall street, and any over-speculation on hiring would have a negative affect on stock/expectations/etc, and that they would rather hire more than the announced total than less, for those reasons.

Now we have the same management team saying anywhere from 700-800 next year with 750+ a year pretty much indefinitely. Yes, this is with the SLI, PBS and other staff shrinking synergies quickly approaching. Yesterday in the crew news, Parker/Isom were also complaining about the "glut" of wide body orders and adding overcapacity (the 787 having more seats than the 767), but also saying "don't worry, we're going to take them, we HAVE to take them."

Who the "H.E. double hockey sticks" knows...