2 weeks or so ago I heard directly from the gentleman that schedules new hire classes, that there are 2 classes in april, 3 in may, and they will be all caught up, and by the time the may new hires get on line will be just in time for the drop of block hours for the fall. take it for what it is worth. Maybe hiring won't stop, but it is slowing down it seems. Not nearly the 5-600 they told us about at the start of training, or interview.

what are the current minimums for Xjet? 1200TT? I saw 1000/50 in airlineapps. are they taking guys with 1000tt?

A buddy who was at the job fair said they will take guys at 1000/100 for a little longer, then raise the mins monthly as we approach the ATP change.

oh ok thanks for your info

Indication that it may be getting harder to find 1200 hour-applicants willing to work for these wages. What will happen at 1500h remains to be seen...

I got in with 1020TT and 175 ME.

Got an e-mail from HR they are running one CRJ class April 9th and they took the last ERJ class in May out.

I got that one as well. Interesting as they said there wouldn't be any CRJ classes in the foreseeable future.

Wow, really? as an ASA pilot this is the first I have heard... They offered COMA's for May so that is kind of confusing... No one at ATech has mentioned anything as to hiring on our side... It isn't surprising to me that we would find out via web boards of people not working for the company yet.. par for the course i suppose

That is a little strange. It just came out this morning 1 class of 16.

I didn't see in the email that they weren't going to have the May 21st ERJ class though. Where did you read that?

I just checked xjet.com. No email or any information about any crj classes.

I think they only sent it to the people scheduled for April/May class dates.

I know nothing about this Hoot County you speak of. :D

Gotcha. Thanks. :)

Wait, so they're running a CRJ class now?

I did not get an email, and I am scheduled for an April class date.

I just got the email. CRJ new hire class April 9th. They also put out a vacancy bid of 12 ATL and 2 IAD FO positions.

I have no idea what they are doing. New Hire class, but yet they are offering COMAs and downgraded several Captains earlier this year.

Just read this too. I guess some movement is better than nothing. I dont get the coma thing though.

COMAs to stop in May to coincide with new hires coming online in June for the summer rush.

Maybe the coma is for the 70.

Good to see a class on the CRJ side. Any hiring is a good thing.

I'm not sure I would call it movement if there are no associated upgrades.

This place has started to slide downhill real fast. I used to feel at least okay about working here, now I'm just embarrassed in our operation. It's only March, summer is coming.

Its hard to believe the CRJ side is this far apart from the ERJ side. We generally take pride in running a good operation. I dunno if this is an indication of where we're heading, but if thats the case I would have rather just taken our chances and gone out of business if it came to that.

Just say the magic words... "I quit"

seriously guy?! Maybe you should ask the AMR guys how CH 11 is? My guess is that you are just talking SH_T for no reason but to flame... It would have came to that BTW...

I don't know how accurate these numbers are but we keep hearing about it on the j/s and it's being hammered at the schoolhouse

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Same for me...

"Good operation" is a VERY relative term.

I got the email today, a day later than others.

That's weird I just got it as well. What is your erj class date?

April 16 is my class date. I'm relieved to know i'm still in the system. I was starting to worry. Does anyone know when a newbie-hire gets information about training? Like where to show up, for example.

Anyone know how many FOs we've hired since the merge?

Crj side is about 150. I dont know about erj but if i had to ballpark it I'd say atleast twice that if not 3-4 times more.

I heard about that as well. I call bs. If anyone would commute suicide then it'll be regional FO's. No upgrade in sight, furloughed many times, never home, don't bring enough money home, wife/husband complaining, 100k in loans, did I miss anything??

But seriously, if you're really depressed, there are many ways to reach out. Family, friends, community, churches, etc...

Remember it's just a job. Most pilots I know are smart individuals that can succeed in other fields. A lot of people went through a career change to become a pilot, has the option to go back to their old careers.

We come on APC to vent and relieve stress. Or flame and entertain. Whatever works for ya.

We have AA pilots and FAs commuting suicide, JetBlue capt going nuts on flight, what the heck is going on? Let's keep an eye out for each other. Try not to throw your fellow colleague under the bus even thought you might move up a number. Help others, as I'm sure there will be times when you will need some help yourself.

Sermon over. Carry on :)

You know if it is a sure deal that all FO's hired after the merge will be stapled to the bottom of our seniority list?

Without question. We took the snapshot a long time ago. You will go behind the most junior pilot on the combined list. My guess as to how the sen integration will go...

based on snapshot.
3 year fences on equipment.

1.snapshot list combined with relative seniority
2.All xjt furloughs at the time after all actives at the time.
3. All New hire pilots after all furloughs recalls

** just my guess based on recent merger history... I'm sure people will argue one way or the other based on equipment size, doh etc... this is about the only fair way to do it imho... either way, my guess is that we wont be combined for a long long time and by then we probably wont be at the company...

I won't, I've been here for 5 years, but I see what you're saying. I just see a lot of hiring going on over there and would hate to see all them incorporated into our single list negotiation.

Man I hope not a three year fence...

No one knows for sure about the fence but it will probably be negotiated to avoid the Pinnacle/Mesabe/Colgan mess. I could see it being a yr + seat lock and/or just an upgrade fence. I am really hoping both sides come to an agreement instead of going to arbitration. I don't see it being too difficult as long as one side doesn't try and get greedy. I could see them allowing the junior FO's the ability to trade to open vacant positions within a year.