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05-20-2016, 07:32 PM
#6111
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Rumor has it that hiring has slowed to a trickle. Any truth to that?
05-20-2016, 08:02 PM
#6112
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Hiring has slowed down for the summer. It will resume in force in the fall.
05-21-2016, 04:22 AM
#6113
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Sim time is at a premium now. Starting to back up. No point in hiring flat out when you can't get them trained.
05-21-2016, 05:35 AM
#6114
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Originally Posted by Xdashdriver
4 days of Indoc/Fundamentals of Command
3 weeks of systems
Oral
6 days of ground FPT
2 days of sim FPT
8 Sim Lessons
Checkride
LOFT
There have been reports of a few days off before sim and a week or two off before IOE due to backlog, but breaks like that are continually changing so I wouldn't bank on them. Around 3 months is a pretty good estimate.
3 weeks of systems
Oral
6 days of ground FPT
2 days of sim FPT
8 Sim Lessons
Checkride
LOFT
There have been reports of a few days off before sim and a week or two off before IOE due to backlog, but breaks like that are continually changing so I wouldn't bank on them. Around 3 months is a pretty good estimate.
Regarding a new hire footprint:
I will say for the February class lots of CRJ people haven't even started sim! Because of losing our sim time to Endeavor in MSP and people in earlier classes taking extra sim sessions. Lots of my friends aren't starting sim until next month and they started in Feb/March
I know one guy who is done waiting on IOE from Feb. and he is home now almost 3 weeks waiting on a crew badge and uniform still... try more like 4-5 months is a better estimate in my two cents based on what I'm hearing from my friends in training
05-21-2016, 05:42 AM
#6115
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Originally Posted by El Dorado
I've been at Mesa about a year, and am inside top 50% in IAD Fos... come to IAD if you want to fly more and hold a line sooner.
we want to upgrade faster man 
05-21-2016, 05:59 AM
#6116
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Originally Posted by VanDriver208
Hiring has slowed down for the summer. It will resume in force in the fall.
I understand the reason of sim availability.
05-21-2016, 06:18 AM
#6117
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Originally Posted by squawkoff
What does the summer have to do with it? Look at last summer. They were hiring like crazy. 29 in May. 22 in June. 21 in July. 20 in Aug.
I understand the reason of sim availability.
I understand the reason of sim availability.
05-21-2016, 06:53 AM
#6118
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Originally Posted by VanDriver208
Hiring has slowed down for the summer. It will resume in force in the fall.
05-21-2016, 08:05 AM
#6119
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Originally Posted by MagPBS
Short answer no. Low credit trips do not make more lines. AA pairings have everything to do with the amount of crew staging that we have to do.
UA parks a good chunk of our aircraft back in base at night.
AA parks basically every aircraft in an outstation at night.
UA parks a good chunk of our aircraft back in base at night.
AA parks basically every aircraft in an outstation at night.
05-21-2016, 09:21 AM
#6120
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This is just what I heard from one of the recruiters...they are dialing it back a bit for the summer and it will start ramping up again in the fall. Traditionally, airlines have slowed hiring in the summer as its the busiest part of the year in regards to flying the schedule.
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