Piedmont CEO now AA VP of Pilot Training
 

Boss Hogg is coming out of retirement to run AA's pilot training. He was always adament that Piedmont have the best trained pilots, so wouldn't be surprising to see more pilots go outside the flow.

Would be a better outcome for American than Piedmont having entire flow class worth of pilots every month headed to United. Plus about half that headed to Delta.

Maybe AA is finally getting wise to losing all it’s WO pilots to United and Delta. Better late than never I suppose.

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Completely different role than the director of pilot recruiting and development

They are splitting the rolls that Kimble Stone had as SVP of flight ops... VP Chip long will take flight ops.. and Lyle will be VP of flight training and standards... They both will report direct to David Seymour.. this is just done reorganizing the management structure so that flight training gets individual attention instead of spit from daily flight ops.... Training is a big thing now..

Lyle has a big job... But.. with the Piedmont training reorganization and fleet transition he earned his bones... Interested to see how this plays out and wish the best for him...

So who has the good rumors? AA Seniority numbers given to Eagle pilots, another round of retention cash, furlough all the Piedmont pilots for preferential hiring at AA…anyone have anything juicier?

Supposedly some of the WO flight training departments are considering using dedicated, multi-stop flights to increase pilot through put. The idea is to fill a RJ with new hire OE students so that it can be scheduled using the 117 augmented crew guidelines with enroute crew changes. Should be able to bang out 2 students per leg, stretch duty day to 18hrs, and only need two OE instructors per plane load.

Interesting 🤔. AA may need go utilize this approach as well. Biggest bottleneck is still sim though.

Piedmont is in a tough spot. Hopefully AA is taking notice. They did after all have to get involved with the recent PDT FA contract negotiations because MK and SK were apparently being unreasonable and disrespectful.

With the PDT pilot contract being up next year it’s going to get interesting. Attrition is very consistent, and new hires are not flocking to PDT. Why would they? PDT has the worst pilot contract in the regional world, the 145 is a dying airframe, and the QOL at PDT is trash. Flow? Well that is basically pointless at this point. Pilots can easily go to United or Delta if they want.

Juicy rumors? Who knows, PDT could close up shop by the end of the year, or heck AA could throw 175s at PDT. Honestly, who knows? But the airline is bleeding pilots, and it’s obvious why.