my understanding is classes will continue at the current rate for the foreseeable future..

 

I believe they will, only adjust around the actual holidays. They had Monday and Tuesday off for Labor Day.

 

What qualities are they looking for?

 

Straight off my notes from the three virtual events I attended since February:

 

Is this still the case needing to pay for own transport and accommodation during training? Does this include IOE? I may have missed it but what is the pay during training? Thanks

 

No hotel or transportation during training. Most people share an Airbnb or use a Crashpad. I wish it wasn’t this way, but that’s just how it is. Full min guarantee pay and insurance starts the first of the next month. You will have your base by IOE, so as long as you are doing IOE in base, normal rules apply. If they need you to do IOE out of base you’ll get positive space DH and hotels.

 

1st year pay until March '22 is $59.97/ hour with a 75 hour guarantee so figure about $4500/ month

2nd year pay is $112 and $115/ hr come March so easily $8500/ month second year

 

Thank you much appreciated.

 

With the 5 year plan of 180 airplanes it seems like we have just about hired our most Junior Captain (without an additional AC order). I would imagine we will have a tough time retaining new hires especially with United running a 2ish year upgrade and new hires getting widebody in training. Does anyone know how our attrition numbers are looking?

 

Seems like the bottom 1/2 of the list has some movement but I can’t be sure whether it’s due to attrition or training failures (both likely). The CA side of the list sees very little attrition but there is the occasional young/junior CA that entertains or accepts an offer, emphasis on “occasionally”. Our retirement numbers are extremely low for the next 5 years and struggle to reach 50 per annum after that.

With the most recent news that we are getting 10 more 321 CEO’s I think the 5 year plan has us closer to 190 a/c. Also there are some (30+?) NEO’s that are on shorter leases than the rest of the fleet. Expect those leases to be extended, bringing us closer to 220 aircraft. All this notwithstanding a new order with an accelerated delivery schedule, your point is valid. But until the company favors raising the 1st year pay, as allowed by the contract, instead of starting a new pipeline/flow/cadet program I don’t think we are hurting.