DEC: C5 vs PDT vs G7
#11
I know you said flow doesn’t matter but I just want your metrics to be accurate. Flow for a new hire at PDT is 7-9 years right now. Also you’ll be commuting in day prior. We don’t have different reserve times that would afford you an extra day at home.
Our training footprint is getting smaller since the well is drying up. You would get used a fair amount but we are flying dash routes and a lot of flights are less than an hour. Time building is a slow process.
Don’t. Even. Consider. Piedmont.
Our training footprint is getting smaller since the well is drying up. You would get used a fair amount but we are flying dash routes and a lot of flights are less than an hour. Time building is a slow process.
Don’t. Even. Consider. Piedmont.
#12
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All about timing, my friend. And your friend/instructor should be telling you the same.
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No one is "flowing" at 4 yrs exactly this year. Right now it's at 4yrs 11mo. And will be right around that 5 yr mark give or take a few months for the rest of the year. Could potentially get to 4.5 yrs by early next year and if that is the case that will be the lowest the flow ever gets and only increases from there. #facts
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#742-72 =670 people waiting to flow of which you’ll be the last one.
670 people/ 72 people (max possible flow per year, AA often only takes flows 11 months a year) = 9.3 years to flow for you.
670/66 (AA averaging 11 flow classes of 6 Piedmont pilots per year) = 10.15 years to flow for you.
670/84 (Average with 7 people a month leaving above you (6 flows x12 months plus 12 pilots a year average above you on the list (will be more above you early on then taper off to becoming a rare treat ) = 7.9 years.
Can’t project AA hiring (they shut down for displacement training etc) or attrition outside the flow over the next 10 years, but 7 years is probably the really optimistic side of what is achievable for a new hire today, and 9 years is the back end of what’s possible depending on the number of normal hiring slowdowns in the industry. A massive downturn event and all bets are off.
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