Pilot Recruiting
#151
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Joined APC: Sep 2019
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Being treated like an adult is worth a lot. Unfortunately the mental midgets, RW, RN and especially JE do not understand this (because they are such retards).
Even little improvements like call first/call last list on reserve, JE said it is too complicated and they can never make it work. Even when it was suggested they could just use the turnback list for it. No, too complicated, can't do it.
If they just would understand that you can be cheap, but treat your people well, a lot more pilots would stay. They just do not have the mental capacity to ever understand that. Shame really.
Even little improvements like call first/call last list on reserve, JE said it is too complicated and they can never make it work. Even when it was suggested they could just use the turnback list for it. No, too complicated, can't do it.
If they just would understand that you can be cheap, but treat your people well, a lot more pilots would stay. They just do not have the mental capacity to ever understand that. Shame really.
In order to grow and evolve you need to change/adapt and that just wont happen unless there are changes in management core.
Fortunately the market on its own is teaching some lessons.
#152
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Joined APC: Feb 2018
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Posts: 1,547
It remains to be seen where all this leads but an LCA recently told me the answer is a smoking hole in the ground, sooner or later.
#153
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It will be interesting to see how many, if any, they get that are anywhere near the time to be DECs. Just don’t see anywhere people could be coming from that would be worth leaving ANY seniority behind. Maybe a few that have been out of the game for a while and have some dusty hours that can be counted.
#155
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It will be interesting to see how many, if any, they get that are anywhere near the time to be DECs. Just don’t see anywhere people could be coming from that would be worth leaving ANY seniority behind. Maybe a few that have been out of the game for a while and have some dusty hours that can be counted.
#156
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Joined APC: May 2017
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how many pilots are there? APC says there are 2400 (info could be dated) but if 95 leave every month, that means they would loose almost 2400 in 2 years. I know they replace/hire every month also, but at that rate a new hire today could be at the top of the list in 2 years?
FO's are pretty much a renewable resource and, assuming infinite capacity to recruit and train, can be replaced over and over and over again with no fundamental threat to the system. Captains and LCA's however, pretty much have to be grown in house. Yes DEC's are a thing but there's not a huge supply of regional applicants with upgrade mins.
So you need FO's to stick around until they upgrade. And then you need the new captains to stick around long enough to fly 1000 hours with their replacement. And you need a subset of those people to stay as LCA's. And you need a decent number of captains and FO's to sit around doing nothing on reserve (ie not getting closer to 1000 hours). You can make various assumptions, but more or less you need the average new hire to stay 4-5 years.
Current situation sounds like 50% annualized turnover, call that 66% turnover for captains. Flight hours will shrink to the captain supply. Captain supply will shrink to the sim/lca supply. And lca supply will shrink to the extent they bother to fill out an application anywhere else.
100% turnover in 24 months, as noted, is rapid progression to unemployment.
#157
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Joined APC: Aug 2016
Posts: 91
Envoy have been selling flow now for more years than I count. Back in SJU in early 2000 time, they telling everyone 5 year flow to AA. Same book of play today but different caracters calling plays.
Many many guys buy into this flow nonsense and go to Envoy for wrong reasons. It might be time where they can not get pilot anymore and have big problem.
Many many guys buy into this flow nonsense and go to Envoy for wrong reasons. It might be time where they can not get pilot anymore and have big problem.
#159
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Not sure how many they have now, but have to have an instructor present. Not even upgrades can play without adult supervision.
#160
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