Is US Airways hiring or not?
03-21-2011 | 12:32 PM
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Is US Airways hiring or not?
Their website does not indicate that they are, yet I hear of newhire classes going on occasionally. Where are these phantom newhires coming from?
Is it rumors? Or were these folks who were sitting in a pool somewhere from the last go around?
US Airways is on my list of interesting companies (for a number of reasons, but I won't go into them here) and I'd like to find out the story.
Every jumpseater I get (and we get a lot of Cactus jumpseaters) tells me they are desperately short and that hiring is 'just around the corner'.
Rumors? News? Lies?
Is it rumors? Or were these folks who were sitting in a pool somewhere from the last go around?
US Airways is on my list of interesting companies (for a number of reasons, but I won't go into them here) and I'd like to find out the story.
Every jumpseater I get (and we get a lot of Cactus jumpseaters) tells me they are desperately short and that hiring is 'just around the corner'.
Rumors? News? Lies?
03-21-2011 | 04:28 PM
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You aren't alone. Everyone I know that's looking for a job (that is, pretty much the entire seniority list at my rapidly shrinking regional) mentions USAir. What with all the old fogies there rapidly approaching retirement, if you can get hired there you'll upgrade in 10 years! Or at least, that's how the rumor goes....
03-21-2011 | 05:15 PM
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You aren't alone. Everyone I know that's looking for a job (that is, pretty much the entire seniority list at my rapidly shrinking regional) mentions USAir. What with all the old fogies there rapidly approaching retirement, if you can get hired there you'll upgrade in 10 years! Or at least, that's how the rumor goes....
the upgrade will be a lot less than that.....assuming us airways is still around!
03-21-2011 | 05:27 PM
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I'm a poolie, we all got hired back in 2008. there was a class 12 on jan 3rd. there were 55 people in the pool before the class so they're down to 43 in the pool. no one knows when the next class will be if there ever is one. things seem like they really slowed down over there, not as many people retiring like they orginally thought.
03-22-2011 | 03:33 PM
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Will those classes still happen given recent economic events? Will they find more furloughed pilots willing to return, or will they have to draw from the pool?
Can't answer those questions for another couple of weeks. That's when the phone calls would go out with the notification to report for the next indoc class.
03-23-2011 | 03:16 PM
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Well, whether or not folks are retiring now or not, there WILL be retirements starting around Thanksgiving of 2012 and they'll be fast and furious industry wide by that time.
The great stagnation will slowly come to an end at that time.
What really happens is anyone's guess, but the 5-year freeze of pretty much everything will be done.
The great stagnation will slowly come to an end at that time.
What really happens is anyone's guess, but the 5-year freeze of pretty much everything will be done.
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