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06-19-2013 | 06:55 AM
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The mass exodus has begun. ZK can't hire and people are leaving as fast as they can. The slow death is occurring. They are just right seating captains, but at some point the stop gap will cease to work.
06-19-2013 | 06:58 AM
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Well the one guy I keep up with said he was definitely leaving soon, probably gone by now, but I think his reasoning was that he couldn't pass his upgrade training. I would be curious how many people are showing up for the new hire classes these days.
06-19-2013 | 07:01 AM
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I believe the number is four new hires so far this year. Four. We had more than four resign just last week.
06-19-2013 | 08:39 AM
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No regionals are having trouble filling classes. I keep hearing that and it's not true.
06-19-2013 | 08:55 AM
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06-19-2013 | 09:15 AM
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I tend to agree from what I know, read, and hear there is no pilot shortage at the regionals yet, and people are applying in same numbers as before. But I also hear that classes are not being filled like at GLA, Eagle, XJT, PDT, and a few others. Obviously HR departments for various reasons are not grabbing these guys and training them to fly airliners. I know in my case I have attended a number of airline interviews and received not a single offer despite some admittedly good interviews. I may not be a pilot rock star, but I can be trained to fly these airplanes safely, and in my view HR is the problem. Perhaps there has been a reduction in pilot supply HR does not get and they still think they can skim off the rock stars.
06-19-2013 | 09:33 AM
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I tend to agree from what I know, read, and hear there is no pilot shortage at the regionals yet, and people are applying in same numbers as before. But I also hear that classes are not being filled like at GLA, Eagle, XJT, PDT, and a few others. Obviously HR departments for various reasons are not grabbing these guys and training them to fly airliners. I know in my case I have attended a number of airline interviews and received not a single offer despite some admittedly good interviews. I may not be a pilot rock star, but I can be trained to fly these airplanes safely, and in my view HR is the problem. Perhaps there has been a reduction in pilot supply HR does not get and they still think they can skim off the rock stars.
06-19-2013 | 10:11 AM
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You do have a valid point as ZK is not a regional airline. They might call themselves a regional, but they're not. It's just a paid internship with credits earned towards a Master's degree in aviating...or so I've heard.
06-19-2013 | 10:19 AM
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Obviously HR departments for various reasons are not grabbing these guys and training them to fly airliners. I know in my case I have attended a number of airline interviews and received not a single offer despite some admittedly good interviews. I may not be a pilot rock star, but I can be trained to fly these airplanes safely, and in my view HR is the problem. Perhaps there has been a reduction in pilot supply HR does not get and they still think they can skim off the rock stars.
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