Growth can only occur IF your pilots are not going elsewhere. Do you not have pilots going to Delta/United/FedEx/UPS/Southwest? PSA has lost a dozen pilots to mainline and good LCC carriers in the last 4-6 weeks alone.

Delta is hiring 1200 next year.
United is hiring 1000 next year.
Southwest is hiring. JetBlue is hiring. Heck...everybody is hiring.

This year, the major and LCC airlines will have hired 4,000 pilots. Next year, it will be over 5,000+.

So, if your pilots are not going elsewhere, then yes, you may be able to grow. Are your pilots not applying? If they are applying, is no one hiring them? Why not?

In this market, with you guys being so small and only flying outdated T-Props and 145's, I can't imagine enough people going to PDT to make up for attrition.

IMO that's dead on. Some will be lucky; others not so much. How many will be left standing, and who acquires who will be a mystery until it happens.

Meant to ask this here, but accidentally posted the question in a different thread (the "PDT pay raise details" thread).

I've been told by pilots and recruiting that it looks like new hires will start going into the 145 in October or November. Any confirmation of this? I'm typed in the 145 and would like to not have to switch and then switch back again.

Also, what's the training footprint there now? I know in the past there were some large backlogs in the training department. Any delays or sits at home during training still exist?... Or is it a relatively smooth flow straight through to ioe? Assuming no backlog, is 90 days about right?

Thanks guys. Congrats on the pay. I hope to be flying with you guys soon.

yeah i think new hires will be in the jet soon. probably october. and 145 training probably has about a 3-4 week backlog right now. no wait for SOE. pm if you want.

I haven't heard any 100% confirmation on when initial new hires will be sent to the jet, but a lot of the talk indicates that it will happen soon. That's not exactly an update, but it's all that I've heard.

The training footprint for the jet is as follows:
-2 weeks of ground school. Systems (1 week) in Dallas. Procedures/flows in Charlotte (1 week).
-Roughly 12-14 sim sessions then a checkride.
*New hires can expect an extra week of ground for indoc.

There is still a break of a few weeks between ground and sims. Minimal wait for OE. Keep in mind, this could all change as more instructors come online. The break between ground and sims could lessen, but the wait for OE could increase. 90 days seems about right from start to finish.

12-14 sims??? Wow. That's a lot. Thanks for the info. Hoping to be aboard sometime this fall.

12-14 sims???!?!?!?! Why????

thats with the 2 normal add sessions and the lofts and loe

Correct.

Lesson 0 - QPT (Procedures/Flows, Callouts, etc..)

Lessons 1-5

ADs - 1 or 2

MV

Lofts 1-4

LOE

14 Sims from Start to Finish (for most, including the MV and LOE)

That's almost twice as many sims as we got at TSA (eight). Don't get me wrong... I think it's great. Investment in the success of the trainee. I'm surprised the company is willing to shell out that much cash on that many sims though. Good stuff.