Also trip splitting

 

Does anyone have a snap shot as to what the latest time it takes to hold different seats in different bases? Has it changed much lately?

 

The last few months it has been posted after the bid process is complete, which is in about 2 weeks... or you can look backward 2 weeks. The CA dates can be a tad misleading because of the DEC hiring that occurred last year.

 

Do you (or anyone) have an idea how many people where hired each year? And that is the projection going forward?

 

Piedmont or PSA or Envoy

Would have to commute no matter the domicile.

I want the possibility of "the flow", don't want to sit reserve long, want to upgrade quickly, and fly jets.

I'm transitioning from the helicopter world. This 121 stuff is all new to me. Trying to gauge what I really want at a regional.


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Not sure what the exact numbers are for the past; but I think I can give you some conceptual direction that might answer the intent of your question. I'm sure someone will correct my numbers to be more precise but PSA rapidly hired and grew from a group of about 500-600 pilots to 1200. That massive hiring wave occurred from around 2013/14 through last summer when things slowed down. Last year around this time PSA announced the desire to hire 1000 pilots over the next two years. While I don't know the exact numbers of how many were hired in 2016; what I can tell you is that hiring approximately kept up with attrition maintaining us close to the 1200 number until the recent explosion which has us over the 1200 number and growing. That being said we are a year into the "we want 1000" and it would not be a stretch to say that we need to maintain current class sizes for quite some time to get there from here. Depending on who you listen to the desired endstate is anywhere between 1600 and 2000. No matter how you slice it there is quite a bit of successful hiring and training required to get to where we want to be.

Does that help?

 

For all 3 WO, I think the goal right now is to hire as many as they can get and train. Isom said that PSA is scheduled to grow to 150 airplanes, but if we are able to staff more, he will happily send more airplanes to PSA. PDT will also get as many airplanes as they can staff. Envoy was initially expected to shrink, but they are filling classes and will likely stay the same size or even grow a little.

AAG had changed how they view their wholly owned regionals and they want them to do the majority of AAs flying.

Of the 10 regionals that are currently flying for AA, expect 5 of them to be cut in the next few years.

As far as total numbers of pilots, PSA started in 2013 with 400 pilots. Starting in late 2013, we started growing and hit 1200 pilots in July 2015. Then, they stopped hiring for a few months (slowed it down) to catch up in the training department. Sims and IOE were really backed up. When they tried to start hiring again, the damage had been done. Other places were offering more money and faster upgrades. So, we stagnated for a while.

PSA has since grown their training department. We have twice the number of line check airmen to do IOE, added another sim, added another IPT machine, and increased the number of sim instructors.

Now, we are trying to hire about 35 every two weeks, and have the training department to handle this growth. We just added a few more sim instructors that came over from Air Wisconsin, and the word out of the training department is that we are going to start leasing an additional sim that Air Wisconsin currently uses (they are getting rid of one sim).

So, if we can staff 200 airplanes, we will have 200 airplanes. That will be about 2200 pilots. Same goes for PDT and Envoy. If we can only staff 150, that is where we will stop.

Currently, we have 115 airplanes. The last 35 will start coming in March or April most likely.

We currently have 1200 pilots on property. Our average attrition is about 25 a month right now, and we all expect it to go to about 35-40 a month in 2017. That means with current hiring numbers, we should add about 400 pilots in 2017 to bring us to 1600 (perfect number for 150 airplanes).

 

" bidding for said open time" references the ability to bid for the trips we don't normally see I.e. all the stuff Brooklyn has been sending out. It doesn't have anything to do with what premium the CCP trips pay.

 

I asked the union leadership for clarification and they have not responded.

 

This should tell you what you're wondering about