turbojet28

There have been many.

SuperDuty

Yes, I personally know two individuals who left for Delta, and one for FedEx, all hired with in the last two years. And I’ve heard of many more.........

terryhflyer

I think he meant has anyone had multiple job offers from SWA, UAL,AA or Delta and chosen to come to Frontier. I would say no but there are some weird people out there.

Powderkeg

I think he was saying it would be telling if people weren’t getting offers from the big 3 because they didn’t want to hire F9 pilots. And that’s not the case. I think we all know if those 5 offers were on the table nobody would’ve taken this one.

Blueskies67

I know of a few going to all those guys except American but American seems to stick to flowing their Eagle pilots if you’re not prior military.

OpenClimb

I don't know if it's relevant to present day discussion, but a classmate of mine (2004 hire) went to American in the summer of 2014 when the rest of my newhire class was upgrading at F9. He had no prior military experience... Lakes and then F9 for a decade as an FO.

dracir1

Yes, that is what I meant.

Is there some place that has that data (the # of pilots leaving F9 and for where)? If it's on our Union's website, I missed it.

And the specific info I was looking for was for pilots who signed the training contract (hired within the last year or so) getting offers. I know the training contract is relatively new but it's still somewhat important info given that UAL, DAL, AA and SW all hire about 800-1000 pilots a year combined. I'm wondering if they are shying away from F9 new hires to avoid the hassle of waiting for the potential pilot to fight a legal battle before being able to report to their training. Not to mention, if there have been single digit attrition to them overall (like 5 or so) the past year, that's 0.75 to 0.5% - which isn't very good. So far, I've heard there have been "many." Well, how many?

I would consider anything less than 2% to say that they DON'T hire F9 pilots...and that might be very important information for a new hire considering coming here. The hiring rate from regionals is around 35% or just about 2% per MAJOR regional last time I checked.

Yabadaba

A training contract won't ever stop you from showing up for class. If people do hear anything it's months down the road.

My class (2+ years ago) had 23 finish training and by my count 6 have gone on to UAL, Delta and JB. The 2 that went to blue went there so they wouldn't have to commute. We were a class or two before contracts came out.

Navmode

Delta alone hired 1092 pilots in 2017. Don’t just make up numbers.

BlackhawkIP

....or the 1237 Delta hired in 2016.