Why wouldn't it be good for the new hires? The American flow with the WO's it's works out great. Top senior people leave, and the junior people upgrade faster, get more money and have a better QOL due to moving up in the seniority. Win Win!!!

Only if you can hire to replace what's leaving.

Yes and that's going to be a big issue by the end of this year. :eek:

This is a retention scheme to keep FOs and CAs from leaving to other majors. XJT had about 650 leave last year and as of Feb 1st, 94!!! they are hoping pilots won't leave until they get a united shot. Expect 1000 pilots at United= 250 pilot interviews (and probably hired). that sure beats 650+ moving on to spirit, allegiant, atlas, etc

Throwing money at the problem works, I'm a huge fan of the flow but unfortunately I can't afford a 65k paycut to take it right now without losing my home and car. I'm pretty sure there are many out there that feel the same way, until the pay or bonuses get better they'll have problems staffing the WOs and flow through airlines.

I'm sure the bean counters have figured out exactly what pay is required to attract the staffing they need if they really wanted to.

Throwing money might work for awhile, but you still have to remember there's only so many pilots left.

There only seems to be a couple of options left. One is for the Majors to allow a few contract carriers to go out of business and hope there pilots flood to their feed carriers. Another way is for the majors to purchase a few carriers to protect their feed.

In the end it will mean hopefully less regional flying and that might be good for everyone. You might in the future see all flying done by WO'ed carriers and pilots with seniority numbers flying for their respective mainline carrier.

Not so much for the original Acey guys & gals, looks like they were hung out to dry on this one.

XJT Guaranteed Interview at United?!
 

Pretty close estimates. There were 836 total pilots hired at UAL last year and 148 of them from xjt (over 50 from the CRJ side).

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685 left xjt from the ERJ side and 312 from the CRJ side.


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How do you get a UA job at 24 and or 1500 hours?

The 24 year old was a PSA pilot who was really in good with head of HR there from what I understand. The 1500 hour I'm guessing is someone military.