Piedmont Airlines News & Rumors
10-26-2018, 01:00 PM
#2951
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Originally Posted by MKUltra
Right now it's 60 planes with 2 spares out on heavy check at a time... bit wet cani'm barely staff there 46 planes we have on the line this month...
10-26-2018, 01:04 PM
#2952
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Joined APC: Oct 2015
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Originally Posted by chrisreedrules
Is Piedmont’s growth pretty much over? Any info on what amount of flying you’re doing in CLT?
Recruitment started to suffer after RAH got their TA passed and things got more difficult once PSA opened their PHL base and PDT became 3rd string pay/QOL wise. PDT just brushed the dust off applications to its defunct MTP program this week and is looking to use those folks to help fill classes since the DECs aren’t materializing (MTP was shut down to fund the DEC program) as they hoped.
All of that could change if AA decides they want PDT to have more planes and staff them.
10-26-2018, 01:15 PM
#2953
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Originally Posted by Otterbox
CLT flying is increasing but should peak in the beginning of 2019. Growth will be over at ~60 aircraft early next year now that the TA got shot down by the pilot group and they haven’t been able to fill NH classes or hit DEC recruitment goals for the last couple of months. As of earlier this month PDT actually started to shrink due to increased Captain attrition and unfilled indoc seats...
Recruitment started to suffer after RAH got their TA passed and things got more difficult once PSA opened their PHL base and PDT became 3rd string pay/QOL wise. PDT just brushed the dust off applications to its defunct MTP program this week and is looking to use those folks to help fill classes since the DECs aren’t materializing (MTP was shut down to fund the DEC program) as they hoped.
All of that could change if AA decides they want PDT to have more planes and staff them.
Recruitment started to suffer after RAH got their TA passed and things got more difficult once PSA opened their PHL base and PDT became 3rd string pay/QOL wise. PDT just brushed the dust off applications to its defunct MTP program this week and is looking to use those folks to help fill classes since the DECs aren’t materializing (MTP was shut down to fund the DEC program) as they hoped.
All of that could change if AA decides they want PDT to have more planes and staff them.
10-26-2018, 06:36 PM
#2956
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Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: CRJ FO
Posts: 4,599
Originally Posted by Otterbox
CLT flying is increasing but should peak in the beginning of 2019. Growth will be over at ~60 aircraft early next year now that the TA got shot down by the pilot group and they haven’t been able to fill NH classes or hit DEC recruitment goals for the last couple of months. As of earlier this month PDT actually started to shrink due to increased Captain attrition and unfilled indoc seats...
Recruitment started to suffer after RAH got their TA passed and things got more difficult once PSA opened their PHL base and PDT became 3rd string pay/QOL wise. PDT just brushed the dust off applications to its defunct MTP program this week and is looking to use those folks to help fill classes since the DECs aren’t materializing (MTP was shut down to fund the DEC program) as they hoped.
All of that could change if AA decides they want PDT to have more planes and staff them.
Recruitment started to suffer after RAH got their TA passed and things got more difficult once PSA opened their PHL base and PDT became 3rd string pay/QOL wise. PDT just brushed the dust off applications to its defunct MTP program this week and is looking to use those folks to help fill classes since the DECs aren’t materializing (MTP was shut down to fund the DEC program) as they hoped.
All of that could change if AA decides they want PDT to have more planes and staff them.
10-27-2018, 04:16 AM
#2957
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Originally Posted by PDTFlyer
46? Jets 53 & 54 just arrived... so there’s 4-6 jets sitting??
We have 62 registration numbers for pdt at this time.
Plus we're getting one line of dca flying.
Probably end up around 50 to 55 lines of flying..
To put that in perspective... pdt has 401 line qualified pilots for the november bid.. ofcourse there are a handful of more that have finished soe since.. line qualified pilots is the true number of how much flying we are doing..
Last edited by MKUltra; 10-27-2018 at 04:35 AM.
10-27-2018, 05:45 AM
#2958
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Posts: 234
Originally Posted by MKUltra
Affirm... conformity checks on 2.. heavy checks on 2 in abi.. 2 spares in phl, plus the usual broken planes... they put a post out last month with how many lines we have.. 1 line equals 1 plane...
We have 62 registration numbers for pdt at this time.
Plus we're getting one line of dca flying.
Probably end up around 50 to 55 lines of flying..
To put that in perspective... pdt has 401 line qualified pilots for the november bid.. ofcourse there are a handful of more that have finished soe since.. line qualified pilots is the true number of how much flying we are doing..
We have 62 registration numbers for pdt at this time.
Plus we're getting one line of dca flying.
Probably end up around 50 to 55 lines of flying..
To put that in perspective... pdt has 401 line qualified pilots for the november bid.. ofcourse there are a handful of more that have finished soe since.. line qualified pilots is the true number of how much flying we are doing..
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