Just looking for an update on Compass Airlines...

Are the hiring plans maintaining at 250 for 2008?

Is it still a good time to get hired with the planned hiring or has the window of opportunity passed?

What is the upgrade outlook at this point?

Is it easy to adjust your schedule? i.e. drop trips, trade trips, etc.

Are the lines productive?

How many a/c do they anticipate taking delivery of in 2008?

Will they interview someone with 121 experience but short of the 1000multi req by 300-400 hours?

Wait a month or two and they'll interview anyone with a pulse...

please elaborate

I hear they are sticking to their posted mins, but being an optimist, my advice is to submit your app.

Best of luck.

Hey thanks for the reply, I appreciate the honesty. Look forward to any other insight...this would be a lateral move for me from a good regional but not commuter friendly.

should hire 370 pilots by 2009.

sorry...the info aircraftdriver gave you is pretty good except I think it will be less than 250 in 2008 because they hired more than 110 in 2007. My buddy that started class friday before last was in the mid-150's.

My remark was basically saying that with the opportunity for a quick upgrade gone and a pretty lackluster contract, there aren't many really good reasons for experienced people to come to Compass anymore so I suspect they'll be hiring lowtimers rather soon.

On further review, JungleBus is correct. They have hired more than 110 in 2007, so there will be less than 250 new hires in 2008 unless more aircraft orders are announced at some point (i have no rumors on that one).

Again, best of luck!

What if NWA starts parking 9's?

And replacing them with what, exactly? Even if they get the maximum number of E175s allowed by the scope clause, the E175s AND CRJ900s have less than half of the seats of the DC9 fleet. Given how vigorously NW defends their market share, I rather doubt they're going to give up so much capacity so readily. The DC9s will solder on until replaced by E190s, C-series Bombardier, or similar - hopefully at mainline!!!