No. The company will drag this out and fight as much as they can. It does look like Airbus is having delivery delays on NEOs, so I'm guessing that's the reason for the hiring pause.

04-14-2017 | 08:47 AM

#7783

ReserveCA

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Originally Posted by phoenix 23684

I think everyone is reading too much into the hiring/VSA slowdown. This exact same thing happened last year at the same time. The last VSA last year was in Mar and did not resume until Sep I believe and hiring slowed down as well.

Not to mention one of the sims at sss was down for almost 2 weeks? Last May........that stopped all new hires

04-14-2017 | 09:03 AM

#7784

PulledBreaker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ReserveCA

Not to mention one of the sims at sss was down for almost 2 weeks? Last May........that stopped all new hires

But last year we had a May and June class, only skipped July, then started again in August.

04-14-2017 | 09:39 AM

#7785

SpankysLadder

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Originally Posted by Bolo

Here is your reason why the hiring freeze. Nothing more and nothing less.

By Victoria Bryan, Reuters. “Lufthansa is due to receive five A320neo jets this year, a spokeswoman said on Thursday, half the number it originally expected, as delivery delays hamper the Airbus plane. Lufthansa, which was the first airline to operate the A320neo and took delivery of five of the jets in 2016, had said at the end of December that it expected 10 of the medium-haul planes this year.”

ummmmm...Lufthansa's neo's have the Pratt engines...which are crap and pretty sure that's the delay reason. How's that affect us since our neo orders are CFM's. What am I missing?

The CFM neo's are becoming very desirable. We got lucky.

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04-15-2017 | 05:48 AM

#7786

azcz10

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PulledBreaker

But last year we had a May and June class, only skipped July, then started again in August.

Yeah, our class in May only had 6. Seems like there were 16 for June, no class in July & I can't remember about August.

04-15-2017 | 07:14 AM

#7787

Jcabesa

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Originally Posted by azcz10

Yeah, our class in May only had 6. Seems like there were 16 for June, no class in July & I can't remember about August.

There was 15 last August.

04-15-2017 | 10:23 AM

#7788

Xdashdriver

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The hiring slowdown maybe due to a backup on IOE. Some guys are waiting 6+ weeks for IOE right now.

04-15-2017 | 11:23 AM

#7789

Salukipilot4590

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Xdashdriver

The hiring slowdown maybe due to a backup on IOE. Some guys are waiting 6+ weeks for IOE right now.

I had to wait exactly a month. I think those in the classes after me might have a few who will wait longer.

Taking a month or two off definitely isn't a "bad" thing right now....I just didn't see it coming!

04-15-2017 | 11:53 AM

#7790

clemb8

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All things considered with regard to competitive qualifications, would having an internal recommendation help someone get a call if they hadn't attended a job fair?