Republic Hiring Again?
 

I am starting to see Republic's ad on APC again offering a $17,500 bonus. Find that interesting considering the training backlog. Could that be a tell that positive things are ahead for you guys or perhaps they are just burning up the balance on an advertising contract?

I don’t think they’ll pull the ads, they have money to burn so just keep them running. We are still doing interviews 5 days in March so hiring hasn’t stoppped completely, it’s just that anyone accepting a job offer will have a bit of a wait.

FWIW, people on Facebook are saying they’re getting a standard “we’ll let you know when we’re hiring again” message when they apply. Not sure how reliable that is.

Classes are full for 2019, but they expect some no shows due to long wait time. Depending on what happens over the next few months, we could hire more in 2019. If your interested in Republic, then apply. They will be in contact if hiring picks up. Also I doubt the bonus stays that high, because we are seriously over staffed right now.

Republic Training Backlog
 

What is the Training Backlog for Republic from interview/hire date to the beginning of training?

Thanks in advance for the information.

It's my understanding that all classes are full through Dec. 2019. So figure 10-11 months from job offer to class. Of course, things can change quickly and spots will open up in classes occasionally. Hard to say exactly what would happen.

Thank you for the reply. Much appreciated.

It is pretty crazy how different the situation is depending on the airline; Republic has classes full through 2018, I’ve heard from some buddies Horizon is full until 2019 (unless you want the Dash 8), meanwhile ExpressJet is advertising they can get you in a February class!!!

Last Jan/Feb Endeavor was saying they are full until October-ish.
In June the floodgates opened again, because no-one waits for a class date for that long if they are ready to start.
So they will have a ton of no-shows. I'd guess they will start interviewing again in the summer.

I applied last week and they said they weren’t interested. I assume it’s because they have so many people who have been hired.

Not sure why people are willing to wait around for a class at an airline that is done growing. Growth is what drives a lot of what people want in an airline.

Just curious... If you feel we're done growing, do you also feel the 100-jet order will be cancelled?

I don’t think most will wait around, and I certainly wouldn’t blame any who left after a six month wait. I probably wouldn’t choose Republic if it meant losing seniority waiting on a ground school date. It’s important to remember many who have future ground school dates don’t currently meet 121 minimums. They have a COE pending meeting those hours.

Most at Republic are content because the QOL is good. Growth is nice, but upgrades are currently just above 2 years without growth. Now if Republic has zero growth over the next 12 months, then obviously it would not be good for junior FOs.

Those are firm orders, so we will most likely get them. Embraer says they’re scheduled for delivery next year. I highly doubt we will ever see the E2 though, which is a good thing. The last two captains vacancies have been at max capacity for sims, so something is up.

Yes, Republic is done growing. The company can only go down from here......................

I’m not sure you quite know what your talking about. 100 new planes for 0 growth? Highly unlikely

We have 100 firm orders with 100 options. A bunch are replacements for the older E170's, but there's a number that will be growth I'm sure. Just because it hasn't been announced today, doesn't mean it won't be.

76 seaters are scoped out at mainline. Above 65 seats is a large RJ at AA. Not sure about UAL or DAL.

It appears JuniorFO is an ExpressJet recruiter. Disregard any of his comments.

Good luck on filling them classes!

Republic Hiring Again?
 

We could easily take 4/5 seats out of the E170 to add to AA and then take delivery of 76 seat E175s.

That’s just one possibility. Nothing is certain, but there are opportunities for growth. I do think a lot of what’s been going on has been lying on the hopes of some deal going through which could completely fall apart.


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You know that is to 1) to replace current aircraft on property and 2) have the ABILITY to take on some additional flying IF awarded.

What bid for flying 100 additional airplanes has Republic been awarded?

Ok, a couple of things... 1) The jet order was recently finalized, with a rough timeline for delivery now in place. Why would a company do that if there wasn’t some kind of solid (unannounced) growth on the horizon? 2) I was told by BB himself that these aircraft are not slated to replace any of our current fleet.

I’m starting to believe the previous poster who said you must be an ExpressJet recruiter. It seems pretty clear you don’t work here.

Taking the seats out is one thing. Paying Embraer to recertify the aircraft as a 65-seater is something else.

Republic Hiring Again?
 

Because it couldn’t be done? 175SC ring a bell?


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Of course, it can be done. Embraer would be happy to charge a premium to make it happen.

"Ok, a couple of things... 1) The jet order was recently finalized, with a rough timeline for delivery now in place. Why would a company do that if there wasn’t some kind of solid (unannounced) growth on the horizon? 2) I was told by BB himself that these aircraft are not slated to replace any of our current fleet."

You don't remember BBs C-Series order, do you?

No, before my time I guess. Would love to hear about it.

Airplane orders mean nothing until those frames are on property and engaged in revenue flying. Until then its all just recruiting propaganda.

If we take delivery of any of them, it will solely be for replacement aircraft and NOT growth. There is an out clause carved into the order regarding scope. If scope relief doesn’t happen, which it appears as though it will not, we will be able to get out of the order without penalty.

To be fair, the C-Series order was for Frontier. Once Frontier was sold, everyone knew we wouldn’t operate them.

But, we still have the orders for the C-Series/A220. We didn’t give them up in bankruptcy.

Where can I access the order so I can confirm the out clause?

The "out clause" is another BB BK.

It’ll be a couple years before he can pull that off again....

Classes are full for 2019 then in 2020 the Lift kids will start coming through,(and they are putting 250 per year through the school with a guaranteed FO seat upon hitting 1500) I wouldnt imagine much off the street hiring at all in future.

This is not accurate. There will be growth with those 100 planes that ARE coming. Common sense should tel you that we are not gonna spend billions $ just to upgrade the fleet. That would be stupid. Something is going on behind the scenes.

You think airlines base decisions off of common sense?

As much as all the armchair CEOs like to think they know more than the company, they don’t. No one knows what’s going on behind the scenes so instead of all the doom and gloom, people need to relax and let it play out.

How can you guys tell who’s a recruiter? Lol

Simply look at their accounts post history. That guy has a hand in recruitment as is mad because he can’t figure out why people still want to work at republic instead of going to ExpressJet (who by the way is having a hell of a time with recruitment even with the new contract and 175SC)

Honestly, we’ve been hearing that “something is going on behind the scenes” for over a year now. No announcement.