20sx

But why ramp up for the fall? New pilots will be online for the winter months when we are not busy. New soon to be announced jet order? Do they expect attrition to increase in the fall?

ScottyDo

Oh good we are "dialing back" taking people from the bottom of the barrel.

Duct Mon

That's where Mesa found you isn't it?

MagPBS

This problem existed back with Airways and CLT, so no.

Out Of Trim

I would think this should have an opposite effect, actually. While slowing down hiring, one would expect that they'll also be able to be more selective with conditional offers.

As far as why they're doing this (if it's true) may be for a number of reasons ... all of which are anyone's guess. What I do know is that we're running a sim backlog of about 6 to 8 weeks, and have been since at least Jan. or Feb.. To make things worse, we recently lost 180 hours of sim time in MSP and also a significant amount in Copenhagen. My hunch is that the primary reason for curtailing hiring (again, hasn't been verified) is simply that they're not happy about paying newbs to sit at home or in hotels for two months. So, until those wait times shorten to a more reasonable amount it would make sense that they slow down on hiring. Unfortunately though, the industry-wide sim availability is a huge problem that's likely to remain for quite a while. Only the companies willing to pay the premiums associated with sim supply will be able to avoid growth stagnation in the interim. We'll see which side of the fence Mesa decides to be on.

deltajuliet

The majors follow a similar hiring pattern, slowed in the summer (so more pilots can be assigned to the line) and ramped up again in the fall. So it makes sense attrition at the regionals will pick up in the fall too, necessitating more hiring at those regionals at that point.

deltajuliet

By the way, is anyone else having trouble clicking "Last Page" for this thread? It goes to page 614, which doesn't exist yet, so you have to manually change the url's page number to 613. It's been doing this on Safari a few days for me now.

Rob12345

Me 2. But not on other Threads?

deltajuliet

Nope, just New Mesa Thread. Mods?

squawkoff

This from the "Site related problems" thread: