Originally Posted by Da40Pilot

What carrot? You mean the $65/hour vs the $24/hour coming a bit quicker? I say common sense.

Originally Posted by CLT Guy

Last I heard, it was more like 6-8 weeks. @gatorbuc99, how long was your wait for IOE?

Originally Posted by gatorbuc99

moved up about 55 spots in 4 months, but that's at the bottom of the list; the higher up you are, the less attrition there exists. The other part of that though, is the higher up you are, the better and better your relative seniority becomes as new hires are added exponentially quicker (in our case, for now and hopefully for the rest of the year) than attrition could ever happen. Was hired in October, moved upabout about 55-60 spots in absolute numbers, but also have about 200 pilots behind me.

The 1 year upgrades might last another month or two but I think it'll normalize at about 18 months - 2+ years even if you're hired now, and if hiring keeps up with attrition once the fleet is staffed. In the grand scheme of things, though...even a 3-4 year upgrade is really good, certainly much better than guys of the past decade realized, through no fault of theirs but simply unfortunate timing. Perspective

Originally Posted by gatorbuc99

Sorry missed ya post; it looks like right now it's approximately 4 weeks from the completion of differences, at least for the Sept & Oct hires. That'll be right at 4 months from DOH

might be our last vacation over the holidays for a looong time, though. no complaints

Originally Posted by Dunkin

The 10-12 month upgrade is projected to be around until the end of 2016 according to the training department and that is not taking into account anymore 900 options being excercised. Attrition will pick up and they will be renegotitating the SSP numbers to a larger amount, they (they being management) are expecting it to change to a flow and the numbers to be around 10/month going to AA. The short upgrade will be around for every new hire in 2015. Come to PSA this year and you will be a captain in 2016 with a career path to AA. I know its hard the debbie downers to believe but there are some great opportunities for young pilots these days, I wish I was 21 years old again instead of spending my first 9 years in the right seat of an RJ.

Originally Posted by PSAJOBS

Dunkin, we are glad your here!

Originally Posted by Dunkin

Most jr captian in the Feb 10 upgrade class was a June 2014 new hire and that dropped from March new hires from the previous upgade class. It is dropping fast......

Originally Posted by Moonwolf

When are you guys planning on having your first "green-on-green" accident?
You guys are back in lga again I see...boy oh boy it was fun to watch the struggles of bluestreak making it out to the runway.