I think the company should just buy a *******load of beer/liquor and we can hammer out this contract in one long barfight.

 

Maybe reacharound will be there.

 

Having been in a bar fight I would highly recommend against that. It was nice to check it off the bucket list but thing quickly escalated into kick the crap out of the Americans......oh the memories......haha

 

Good ol' reacharound2000, our favorite "furlough protection" buddy. Cheers!

 

What is going on at Expressjet hiringwise? How many classes? Expressjet's website has 700/100, what kind of hours are people getting on with?

Thanks in advance

 

Not hiring right now, zero, and probably atleast 1000 due to the new ATP law.

 

1100 hours now, 1200 in a few months.

 

No one really knows what's going on with hiring right now. I think from a staffing perspective we seem to be OK. I haven't seen 200% up a lot this Summer. I know last Summer it was almost an every day thing.

You're gonna hear rumors both ways, but nobody knows for sure. I think the people who are in the know would be ones who have recently spoke to recruiters or have recently interviewed. I'm interested to hear what those people can tell us.

One interesting thing though is the fact that the company seems to be legitimately concerned about where to get people once attrition and subsequent hiring really starts to pick up (the only reason we hired so much in 2011 is because we were severely short staffed). There was an internal memo sent out stating that the number of applicants who either met or would meet the ATP requirements by Aug 2013 dropped to 0 (that's right - zero) months ago.

Unless the company announces new flying or growth, I'm expecting us to pretty much stay where we're at right now as far as staffing. Maybe some trickle hiring here and there for attrition, but not much. Regardless of what the doom and gloomers think, I'm ok with where Expressjet is right now. Save SkyWest, I don't think there are any other regionals out there that are in a more favorable financial situation.

 

Well, hopefully there will be a class before too long. Those of us in the pool got an email the other day asking about interest and availability. That's where I got the numbers from by the way.

Not sure about the ATP requirements memo- I have 1450+ hours now so I should qualify right out of IOE. Also, some of the guys that interviewed with me were coming from another regional. Those were May interviews though, maybe the memo predated that.

 

Got that email too, seems it may be awhile. Thankfully there were other offers! Good luck guys