New Envoy Information
#5131
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Joined APC: Oct 2014
Position: Noob
Posts: 184
Mine was on a Tuesday. I just checked and I had a conditional offer by Friday. So it was a total of 3 days between.
#5134
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Joined APC: Jan 2016
Posts: 529
What about the guys still instructing that need 10 more months to make it to envoy; with 500 ahead of them, is the flow gonna be an additional 3yrs on top of the 6 yrs for someone hired today?
I can imagine what he will be told.. "oh too bad kid, looks like if you'd completed that instrument rating faster your career would've gone a lot better"
I know seniority is everything in this line of work, but your relative seniority is part of a continuum that is affected by the decisions of multiple airlines and is always in flux. You can't say for sure today is the best day and tomorrow will invariably be worse. In my opinion, becoming a capable, flexible and outgoing pilot is a much better use of time than attempting to read a crystal ball.
#5135
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,530
Following your math, if someone is hired in 6 months with 300 ahead of him (envoy hiring 50/mo), that 6 month delay will cost him nearly 2 yrs extra waiting to flow. I'm sorry, but this 'hurry aboard and pull up the ladder behind you' mentality is so blatantly dense; there are far too many variables to simplify it to this level.
What about the guys still instructing that need 10 more months to make it to envoy; with 500 ahead of them, is the flow gonna be an additional 3yrs on top of the 6 yrs for someone hired today?
I can imagine what he will be told.. "oh too bad kid, looks like if you'd completed that instrument rating faster your career would've gone a lot better"
I know seniority is everything in this line of work, but your relative seniority is part of a continuum that is affected by the decisions of multiple airlines and is always in flux. You can't say for sure today is the best day and tomorrow will invariably be worse. In my opinion, becoming a capable, flexible and outgoing pilot is a much better use of time than attempting to read a crystal ball.
What about the guys still instructing that need 10 more months to make it to envoy; with 500 ahead of them, is the flow gonna be an additional 3yrs on top of the 6 yrs for someone hired today?
I can imagine what he will be told.. "oh too bad kid, looks like if you'd completed that instrument rating faster your career would've gone a lot better"
I know seniority is everything in this line of work, but your relative seniority is part of a continuum that is affected by the decisions of multiple airlines and is always in flux. You can't say for sure today is the best day and tomorrow will invariably be worse. In my opinion, becoming a capable, flexible and outgoing pilot is a much better use of time than attempting to read a crystal ball.
#5136
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Joined APC: Aug 2008
Position: forever fo
Posts: 2,413
They have the average attrition that's drafted on years of historical data to draft up a realistic idea of hired today, calculate flow and then calculate protected attrition. You then have time to aa.
#5137
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Joined APC: Jul 2011
Posts: 894
I know seniority is everything in this line of work, but your relative seniority is part of a continuum that is affected by the decisions of multiple airlines and is always in flux. You can't say for sure today is the best day and tomorrow will invariably be worse. In my opinion, becoming a capable, flexible and outgoing pilot is a much better use of time than attempting to read a crystal ball.
For example. I had friends hired 800 numbers junior to me in a big hiring spree, only a little more than a year apart in seniority. Our last decade has been incredibly different. I bid whatever I wanted, didnt spend any time on reserve, 17- 18 days off for years. Weekends/holidays off. Upgraded nearly 4 years ahead of them. Made a lot more money while they were broke. They had years and years of reserve, horrible schedules the entire time. Worked weekends and holidays for the better part of a decade, and now they will start over way behind me at AA all over again while AA is also street hiring hundreds and hundreds of people ahead of them as well.
Get your number in line. "Then" go work on your personal stuff or marketability....
#5138
That being said. The current envoy flow paradigm didn't become what it is today through one contractual negotiation. It has evolved through several negotiation periods which is why there are several distinct groups established. The AAG/envoy management didn't do this by mistake. You can expect that in a few years, perhaps during the next Section 6 negotiating period, they will suggest that the pilots hired after Oct 2013, those currently in the 15 per month group, will do up to 25 or 30 a month in exchange for whatever management wants from the pilots at the time. You will then have another group established at the flow will go back to 15 a month for someone hired after that signing date.
I don't agree with it. I don't think that as a union we should allow for a separation of employees to receive different compensation but it is what it is. A new hire today can expect to be confronted with the decision of accepting a certain contract attached to a greater flow provision or reject the contractual change and maintain the 15 flows per month.
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