Comair Hiring Freeze
 

Are we the only regional that has a freeze on or are the other regionals also stopping?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think expressjet isn't hiring right now.

How long is Comair's expected to last?

Anyone know the status of Republic or Skywest/ASA?

AFAIK, ASA's still bringing them in...

Classes at RAH into april as far as I am aware.....

I dont know the definition of freeze but my 2 friends interviewed yesterday, and another one was offered a class about 2 weeks ago for Feb.......

Xjet hasnt been hiring for a while I take it, althought I did have a friend interview there and get told to expect something in the spring

I think the first week in Feb. is the last class scheduled for the foreseeable future. Not that I mind some more people underneath but why bother?

Saw this over on Jetcareers.com Not sure what Comair is up to.


Dear Applicant,

This letter is to confirm your interview date with Comair, the Delta Connection.

Your interview appointment with Comair is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. on 01/30/08 at the Comair General Offices located at 77 Comair Blvd. Avoid arriving more than a few minutes before 8:00 a.m. as the doors to the General Offices do not open until that time. Once inside, please inform the Receptionist that you are there for a Pilot interview. A Company representative will be there shortly to greet you and escort you to the interview. A package that includes an application, all required forms, hotel information, and directions to the General Offices will be sent out to you via UPS as your interview date gets closer, but should you have any questions, please contact Human Resources.

You must bring originals of the following items. Please also provide copies of those indicated with you to the interview:

· Completed Comair Application
· Completed Supplemental Application forms
· Current Resume
· All Pilot Logbooks
· FAA Certificates (copies also)
· ATP written results, if no ATP certificate (copy also)
· FAA First class Medical (copy)
· Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit (copy also)
· Passport (copy also)
· Photo ID (copy also)

Your interview will consist of a company briefing, a computer administered cognitive skills assessment, and an interview with representatives from Human Resources and Flight Operations. You should expect to complete the interview process no later than 5 p.m.

We want you to spend a relaxed and enjoyable day as our guest and try to learn as much as possible about our company. We are certain that you will be impressed with Comair and all it has to offer and we are looking forward to the opportunity of getting to know you better.

Good Luck! If you have any questions or require any additional information, feel free to contact me at 859.767.1486 or email at [email protected]. I look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,


Laurie Hobbs
Pilot Recruitment Coordinator
__________________

Who says Comair is on a hiring freeze? Where does that say that??

RAH is planning to hire 700-800 during 2008. Granted, some of that is to cover the 20-30/month attrition rate, but RAH is also adding more aircraft than it is losing in 2008. The grass is still a nice shade of green...

What would you call it when the last class of new hires is scheduled for Feb and the memo from our President states they will let attrition do the job of getting staffing to adequate levels?:confused:

during the flt ops meeting they plan to bring hiring to a crawl all dept

As far as I know they are still hiring and doing classes. Maybe they are doing it to give the guys in the training department something to do. I dunno.

I think training will have more time to come up with scenarios for our recurrent training. As FTR just said, hiring is coming to a stand still. And if the numbers posted on the other thread are correct, we will have it this way for most of 2008. So you and I are going to be on reserve for a long time. That or we can apply to somewhere else that is growing.

Growing today slowing tomorrow.

Slow today, shrinking tomorrow.

True....its hard to tell what the right move is. Should those of us at the bottom wait and see or do we make a jump? Decisions decisions???

I'm thinking about this every waking minute of the day haha....fun times, ain't it?

Im staying until Im forced to go... I am not going through another year of first year pay, another year of probation, new hire training, another year of reserve at the bottom of the senority list unless they make me............ now those of you senior to me... I suggest you jump ship... the grass is always greener.... :)

Saw a previous post and tried the Jetcareers.com site 'couse I hadn't seen it before. Then found this on it:

Comair set to cut fleet, flights
Friday January 11, 2008

Comair, a regional subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, will eliminate up to 14 50-seat aircraft from its fleet of 131 regional jets.

Delta previously announced it will cut its domestic flights by up to 5%, a reduction that is the equivalent of 10 mainline aircraft and 35 RJs. Delta Connection carriers will have up to 15% fewer scheduled block hr. as the company reduces flying and fuel consumption. At the same time, DL intends to increase international capacity by 15%.

Some of the Comair reductions will be achieved through decreased utilization while others will result in the return of aircraft to lessors, President John Selvaggio said in a memo sent to employees Wednesday. Eight of the eliminated aircraft are on leases that expire soon while the remaining six will be removed from service and could be sold.

"With fewer block hours, Comair must align our staffing across the company to support what will become a smaller operation," Selvaggio said, adding that he expected "front-line reductions" to be met through attrition. "Most immediately we expect to achieve savings by revising existing programs as well as by implementing new technology initiatives that will help us streamline our work."

Comair currently has 6,300 employees and operates 697 flights to 88 cities in the US and Canada. Delta has expressed an interest in selling the subsidiary for some time.

Is Ameriflight hiring now, is it difficult to get Burbank or Ontario as a base, how was the interview process in Burbank and how is the schedule for newhires?

That's the dilemma I'm in, I'm still so junior and was only hired in the summer that I don't have tons invested here. I told myself too that I'm just gonna stick it out while other people leave, and I still may very well do that. If I'm jumping ship though I should do it sooner than later and it's sounding better every time the bid packet comes out and I move up maybe 1 spot only to have someone else under me either go to CVG or jump ship also....ah good times good times.

Hey you're senior to me...any other prospects out there look good to you? Haha kidding...

Comair Store
 

I just saw on Epic a Comair store and all of a sudden I have that annoying infomercial guy in my head. Billy Mayz Hayz here with the Comair store. With prices this low we are practically given the stuff away. :p

Hah no kiddin. Glad to see they're focusing on the important stuff.

Hey, we might want to buy out the store. Could be nostalgic like all the old Eastern Airlines stuff.

Straight from the source, my interviewer last week at Comair said hiring is at 8-12 new hires per month.

Expressjet wont have any new classes till april......At least thats the latest....

From what I know we are still loosing atleast 1 pilot a day, so it is easy for attrition to help with the reduction of flying. So much so for all we all know they may have to hire a few each month just to hold down the fort. Because remember our training is the longest, 2 and a half months, so at the rate of attrition someone hired today wouldnt see the line till we were down another 60 pilots. Anyhow until they stop interviewing and until I stop seeing "newbies" walking through ops I wont' think we are on a hiring freeze.

PIPE, Did you interview with Eagle? Heard their classes are large.

MP Post
 

I thought MP had a post on the other thread about Feb. being the last class for a while. Oh well, I may have misread that. And Paok, I'm glad you're staying put for the forseeable future. I'm tired of going backwards as a % of seniority.

Also, any new hire will not see actual line flying for quite some time. I'm not sure how long IOE is taking these days, but people were getting a month vacation waiting to start.

Chow and others,To the best of my knowledge we are still hiring, and we are still interviewing. The current plan is too slow this hiring process to allow attrition to help level staffing needs. As we all know staffing needs are based upon spreadsheet numbers with projected attrition. So crew forcasting planning is taking a shot in the dark. We currrently have small classes starting biweekly with a short break in February as the footprint for training is massaged. I personally think that good news is headed down the pipe but we may have to weather a storm such as a Delta merger before things begin to turn. Some people are scared of this and are cutting and running. My only thoughts on this is if all DCI carriers and other non DCI carriers do have to scale back wouldnt it be better to have 6 months in instead of 1.

I wish i could go back to the Christmas Day meltdown we had which btw was the beginning to Comairs "slow growth" or "shrinkage." Since that fateful day there has been nothing but shrinkage and i don't mean what George from Seinfeld meant, and false promises and expectations.
Believe me when I say that i would like to see a light at the end of the tunnel but after MANY promises made by our past "4"CEO's in five years, and yet more negative news forgive me when say "show me the money!"
People are scared and running? I would cater this to a wise opportunity having the ability to see what really is and has been happening here.
Anyone can try and offer me some Koolaide here but ll i would need to do is look at the facts and history and NOT what may happen if this should occur or that occur, or they "heard" something from someones' cousin who is married to the daughter of a man that heard comair has been bought! Sick of speculation and rumors and koolaide. Before I get flamed, I enjoy the flying here and personal I fly with, just sick of managements lies and their advocates trying to force koolaide to me and others. Want to raise morale, or quality...show us the money or at least an ACTUAL VISION of where this company is headed.

I agree 100%. Give us some TRUE idea of where we are headed. If they want the senior people to quit, give them an incentive to leave. Don't just make the rest of us miserable. All that does is destroy morale and lower our customer service.

I read on anothe forum that SkyWest may be buying Comair to secure more Delta flying. Just another rumor until the PR though

Not yet, interview wed. How'd you know that I was interviewing with Eagle?...guess i posted that earlier, huh?

Yep. You posted on the "Comair or Eagle ???" thread ...
"Shortly after New Year's I have interviews with both Comair and Eagle.:eek:"

How did you like Eagle?

I had a great experience with eagle! Everyone was very nice and outgoing (employees and applicants). The only bad part was that the whole process took 12 hours from arrival at HQ to completion of the SIM. if you are interviewing soon check out the most recent post on aviationinterviews.com. got any questions, pm me!

Welcome to Eagle !! For those of you thinking about coming here, I don't think you'll be disappointed. Sure the upgrade is long right now, but they may drop to 3 or 4 years. Qaulity of life on the EMB ORD is good, and I think this would be a good place to wait out the recession. Well back to studying, can you believe folks have failed the indoc open book test? Well I can't let that happen to me!!

So you're in class now? How is everything? pretty fast-paced, i'd imagine! I start on Feb 4. If you are going to ORD, tell me what you've heard about life/flying up there. All i know is that reserve is short (1-3) months on the EMB but thats about it.

Yes, started on the 21st. Everything is fine, not fast paced yet, we just completed indoc, open book test is Monday, can you believe people have failed this test? I am going to ORD on the EMB, as of yesterday, THERE IS NO RESERVE WAIT FOR LINES AS A NEW F.O. subject to change, of course.
The line for the EMB ORD as well as BOS are great, weekends off, plenty of out and backs, etc. When you come, be sure to bring money, eating out around here is expensive, so most everyone goes grocery shopping at Super Wal Mart, and packs thier lunch. Things to study of course are emergency memory items (only 6 of them SUPER EASY) memory items, profiles, callouts and systems. You are paid fully during training, first check is around 600.00 bucks mailed to your address of record. Per diem is around $1.95 for 16 hours, daily plus the new pay increase we just got.
Come here ready to work your butt off, stay on task and you will do fine.

If you have any more questions, pm me and I will be glad to help you out. You coming from Comair, right? Again Welcome, and I'm sure I will see you around the "schoolhouse"!!