ORDinary

With lines like these, who needs lines.

AdiosMikeFox

Oh, I'm sure it's not real kick backs, you get fired for graft.

lakehouse

I have commutable 3 days with 16 days off, I bid 80 in ord emj fo

I saw 40+ lines with 16 or more days off

ag386

Final hiring numbers for May look to be a total of 12. A class of one and the second class of the month is 11. The 11 still have to all show for class and stay so that number could possibly be revised downward.

This isn't good news as Envoy's own union has posted new hire numbers of 38 per month each and every month going forward for the flow to continue working. So at present, Envoy comes up about 26 short of what they need this month. I predicted their hiring numbers to average 15/month for the remainder of the year. Looks like this should be about right gauging the numbers for this month.

The regional model is in slow motion collapse. Even Endeavor, which offers the best package right now is hiring about 10 short of what they need each month. Skywest needs 100 per month and they are seriously struggling right now. Envoy, PSA and PDT rank in the lower half of regionals in pay. All three are bottom of the barrel with their abhorrent treatment of their pilot corps and employees in general. There are better options out there than an AAG wholly owned right now.

E175 Driver

Im showing up tomorrow. Lets see what they offer.

Inclined plane

The union and the company have said the flow is independent of whether Envoy gets newhires or not. Purely based on AA retirements. If they do withhold any for a particular month, they need to make it up by years end.


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Smutter

A reach around is guaranteed

ju10489

Who can believe that? Who's gonna fly envoy's planes?

PilotJ3

Lol you're funny.

The 38 is not for the flow, is for the 2.5 for CA. Also, have they ever stopped the flow for other thing that is not returning furloughs or bankruptcy?

How's Allegiant??? Oh wait...that's right you probably don't even work there.

eaglefly

You mean the 824 ? They haven't stopped it, but HAVE slowed it to minimum rate possible and for really no other valid reason other then they can.

There are 5 Envoy pilots out there with reduced AA seniority (a tangible loss) by being withheld in March. The relationship between the Envoy new-hire rate and the flow is not direct, but definately interrelated. If fewer pilots are brought on board then are lost to attrition which includes the flow, Envoy shrinks. If Envoy shrinks aside from needing fewer captains which slows the upgrade, Envoy cannot cover its flying and then parks aircraft. If Envoy starts parking aircraft (which soon will simply HAVE to happen considering the present hiring/attrition metrics) then that will ensure the flow runs at minimum rate, but it also dramatically increases the likelihood that other measures will be taken to preserve Envoy's viability. What those are is yet to be seen, but Envoy will not flow itself out of existence.

If the situation gets bad enough and Envoy starts to mimic Republic, they could also play the BK card and you can be sure the protected pilot flow provisions will be among the first contractual items on the block for modification as the core of that problem will be the lack of pilots just like Republic. Prior to such a situation (which also would be useful for renegotiating asset leases and even scrapping some of them), I would assume Envoy management would sit down with Envoy ALPA and you guessed it, just like so many times in the past offer them two choices of bad and worse. Bad would be voluntary agreement to modify the flow provisions giving some say to ALPA and worse would be a free ride via a judge to gut it to whatever extent they see fit with Envoy ALPA powerless on the sidelines.

Envoy is running a staffing deficit each and every month and not likely to get ahead of that curve even with a good month every now and then. The clock is ticking and so far no one has come up with a successful strategy to reset it.