2024: No Summer Flows?
 

Bad news for the flow, my LCP friend is saying that after hiring 200 a month in Q1, Delta is planning on stopping hiring later in the summer so instructors can fly the line. Then in the fall they start up again at 200 a month in order to end the year at 1100 pilots hired. Means nobody will flow for about half of 2024…



Hope you guys have your apps out, I know I do. Thanks for all you do!

UA/AA still planning on 2500 pilots coming on board for 2024. No end in sight for the time being. Classes planned every Tuesday until November 2024 as far as I can see.

The water is fine. UA loves 9E pilots. No for real, they've been great on the training department from what I was told.

They been saying same thing last 3 years and something always changes or they are wrong . A lot can happen in 6 months .

When I was an LCP...(retired in 2020) I always chuckled when anyone said..." I talked to an LCP, and they said...."
LCP who act like they know company plans are either delusional or just want to sound important.

Honestly this wouldn't surprise me. We do it at AA. There's a reason we don't have new hire classes in busy months (dec/June) yes it helps the training center get caught up but it also keeps WO CA at their regional flying as no one flows.

“It’s not if, it’s when”
-Senior APD on the Embraer, early 2016.

he *was* right, but nearly a decade later.

Anyone who’s been in the airlines for more than five minutes knows LCPs are about the least credible sources when it comes to rumors.

They would be, were it not for Chief Pilots.

And base managers!

everyone knows the best source for accurate rumors is the training department. YX contract should be cancelled any day now and 9e will be 100% 175 with west coast bases.