New hires pushed back into the pool...
09-19-2023, 06:15 AM
#51
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Originally Posted by Dragonslayer69
I just heard about reduction in class sizes and putting candidates back in the pool recently from a captain that is involved with mentoring cadet hires. He has to deal with panic messages from cadets that they lost their class date. He told me that training bottlenecks have pushed them into a position to slow training down until everything catches up. Then it can fire back up again. That was the story.
I’ve only been here about a year and when CA’s ask me what I think of Frontier, I say the same thing, “I’ve never been someplace where the leadership team and executive staff seem so disinterested in creating a successful business.”
At the head of it all is Mr. Biffle. I still struggle to understand how the board of directors can find his performance even remotely acceptable. Just put his hand on the rip cord and have him deploy the golden parachute already. Get him gone and replace him with someone that actually wants to run an airline. Either that or put a for sale sign out in front of corporate HQ.
I’ve only been here about a year and when CA’s ask me what I think of Frontier, I say the same thing, “I’ve never been someplace where the leadership team and executive staff seem so disinterested in creating a successful business.”
At the head of it all is Mr. Biffle. I still struggle to understand how the board of directors can find his performance even remotely acceptable. Just put his hand on the rip cord and have him deploy the golden parachute already. Get him gone and replace him with someone that actually wants to run an airline. Either that or put a for sale sign out in front of corporate HQ.
09-19-2023, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by spooldup
Hell, I would take his spot... If he ever wants to leave, just let me know and I can jump in and pull the rip cord
09-19-2023, 10:44 AM
#53
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In regards to the recruitment page.... of course it was all naysayers. But the official Frontier page just put out a statement about how it was undergoing maintenance and will be back up shortly.
09-20-2023, 12:58 AM
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I interviewed yesterday and didn’t get any feeling of a slow down in hiring. The HR person after the day said she was overloaded with interviews, Indocs, etc. I didn’t get the impression she saw a slow down anytime soon. I overheard a couple guys at the next table talking engine issues, and fairly minor impacts to deliveries in the future. No plans to defer deliveries, and need to keep training pilots. Class dates for direct FOs were in a few months and the cadet program were in early 2024. I got an offer so was pretty pumped.
09-20-2023, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by loganeich
I interviewed yesterday and didn’t get any feeling of a slow down in hiring. The HR person after the day said she was overloaded with interviews, Indocs, etc. I didn’t get the impression she saw a slow down anytime soon. I overheard a couple guys at the next table talking engine issues, and fairly minor impacts to deliveries in the future. No plans to defer deliveries, and need to keep training pilots. Class dates for direct FOs were in a few months and the cadet program were in early 2024. I got an offer so was pretty pumped.
09-20-2023, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by madmax757
My understanding is that PW has fixed the engine issues in the new planes and it only affects the ones that are a few years old. I just can’t find the article about that.
09-20-2023, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by hercretired
once you find it, please post it.
Frontier is not affected by the engine issues other than the delays they have caused receiving new aircraft from the factory. However, the 9 aircraft delivery delay we have currently have from Airbus is rolling. We were 5 aircraft short in 2022 that has extended to 9 in 2023. According to Barry on, I believe, the Q1 2023 investor call that delay remains unchanged and we will be 6 months behind on the delivery schedule until Airbus can begin to catch back up.
So looking at the planned growth chart on FFTpilots.com was the plan but you can can subtract currently 9 per year beginning in 2024 to reflect the current delay. 2023 has been accounted for already.
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