I'm guessing with part 117 and the type of flying that we do, we'll end up being closer to a 12 pilot/plane airline or 490-500 bodies. We haven't even had any flows leave and they're throwin' out critical pay like stimulus packages...

Yeah that seems to be happening here at Xjt as well. Starting to rethink even interviewing at Compass and just take my chances and stay at Xjt. I know it doesn't hurt to interview but why go thru all studying if yr not 100% commited. Mgmnt is claiming doom and gloom but SKW still making profit. And no regional can afford to furlough a single soul. Compass recruiter also raised red flag in my book when he asked me if I could jumpseat to MSP to interview to save a few bucks to not PS me. I felt uneasy telling them yeah cause I'm not technically commuting.

Just curious when flows are expected to start moving? APC says Delta was expecting to hire around 300 this year.... how many of those as supposed to be Compass folk?

Rumor at Compass is Delta wants 131 guys this year. Right now 1-85 have their flow letters (emails) with 86-105 supposedly getting their letters this week or next. So far Delta hasn't been backfilling any classes which is good for the Compass guys.

And on top of that, the first group gets released to Delta training in a week.

I thought so too, but we have a lot of people in training at the moment that aren't out on the line. So I'm not sure how many current and qualified pilots there are flying this month.

The bid packet shows 528 pilots and I counted about 132 something non-bidders in March (the guys with a 1 next to their name in the bid packet who are in training, on leave, or flowing in March)

So 528 - 132 = 396 pilots. Even if you add back the 20 guys flowing in march and 20 guys who are probably flying in February but in upgrade training in March we have around 436 active pilots.

That's because a certain to rename nameless DCI carrier was positive spacing people around on Delta flights for United business purposes. Delta found out and removed the privilege for non essential positive spacing on Delta for the DCI carriers (I.e. Interviewing) last I heard the HR folks were buying people tickets on Southwest to get them to MSP to save money because they have to pay full fare for interview candidates now.

SiShane, here's why I think you should still interview...

Steer Clear of SkyWest, Inc. - DailyFinance

Interesting article found on the Pipe


"Last year, ExpressJet lost $49 million on revenue of $1.47 billion. That represented a setback after the company had managed to narrow ExpressJet's loss to $18 million in 2012."

Sounds more like SkyWest can't afford to KEEP ExpressJet around.

Look, Compass will flow almost 60% of the current pilots. They will lose more to other types of attrition. They have NO 50-seat A/C exposure. So there is unparalled movement and 70-seat A/C security.

Most of all, the pilot group seems happy and positive, much like XJT was when I started there in '06.

Just interview my man...

Are new guys experiencing any delay between LOE and start of IOE?

Friends coming through seem to be getting scheduled quickly <5 days.