We have to keep those new hires in Minneapolis to maintain cost effectiveness and appropriate resource use.

-Hulas Kanodia

Any updates on when the training plan will start upgrades in 2015 and how many per month?

Yeah its crazy to me too. To me, to send a Msp pilots out of base for recurrent, cost them more in terms of lost flying days, than it does in extra per diem. You would still be better off sending a new hire out of base and paying their perdiem and hotel room than to waste anot her day for a line pilot, deadheading the pilot to training.

I had heard its going to be 20 in January and 8 upgrades almost every week after that until September.

until it gets to you...then upgrades are on hold indefinitely

Haha, and this is why I love you...always as positive as AIDS.

From what has been discussed so far, it should be 4 a week in january, 6 a week in February, and 8 a week after that, with some weeks having 10 upgrades.

Starting middle of January it will be 6 per week. Beginning in March it will be 8 per week with a few exceptions of 10. Upgrades continue through this time next year.

Yeah, I agree that is what has been laid out, but I think it will slow down even more when training fails to keep up with new hires and upgrades.

Exactly. I've seen the new hire/upgrade training plan. And as awesome as it is having all this movement, I cant foresee a non disastrous outcome to all of this.

2015 is going to be a very chaotic year for Compass