That is the beauty of the model. We deliver a mainline product but my W2 is clearly not mainline.

We are the outsourced workbench and mainline would outsource even more if they could. This is no different than what Foxconn is for Apple - contract manufacturing .... we buy the image and brand of an iphone but it is delivered by outsourced labor. Just like your UA/DL/AA/AS flight (and ticket, and experience, etc. ) operated by xxxx

I have no idea how dry the pipeline really is. But I am afraid there are a lot more tools in regional managements shed to come up with new schemes to secure a supply of folks.....

 

My point exactly! The issue is pilots and the lack thereof, 10 years ago, every F/O I flew with was good to very good. Today, that's not quite the same. The proof is this, a reduced supply of pilots to the point that the company eliminated the hiring standards and shifted to the Level D interview process is very expensive. The failure rate is currently 5 times the average from just a few years ago. Come to the wrong regional(they all are), without the necessary skills and you will go home with a couple of pink slips for your efforts/interview. Managers can't scheme pilots where there are none. They can't figger out that the only way to attract pilots is to make the job good enough to attract them. Currently the job isn't quite good enough to enough new fish. The proof is in the pudding, the company eliminated the essential parts of the interview process to increase the number of potential candidates. For our company, you cannot consider yourself a successful line pilot until IOE and a random amount of time is in the rearview. Sorry the machine is flashing the red master warning and they are just thinking that running the performance numbers will make it go away......

 

Does anyone have the updated CRJ DOH to line holder times for DTW and ORD? Trying to estimate how long reserve will be. I should finish class by the end of March.

 

7/25 class just became line holders and the 8/15 will be composite/line holders, but it probably will mean nothing for you because DTW will likely be a larger base with 700s/900s by the time you get there

 

Thanks for the info. I'm assuming that means the reserve time would go down as a result of the growing base?

 

Anybody work in the training dept. specifically FTD/CTP that would care to answer a few questions for me? Please PM.

Thank you.

 

The DVR shows they are bringing the total crews in dtw to 147. That would mean you'd be a line holder for the first bid qualified in base.

 

That sounds like great news! Thank you!

 

That's not true at all. Of the 130 something ppl on the DTW seniority list approximately only 80 bid. There are 62 guaranteed lines and 67 target lines. The DVR doesn't really help you figure out how long you will be on reserve. I did 1 month of reserve and then got a composite for January and would have gotten a line for feb. but I am transferring. Plan on doing at least 1 month of a reserve line for DTW

 

So your telling me with 147 crews they are only planning on having 67 lines in the near future? The seniority list is only part of the puzzle. That is 80 reserve crews. Sounds legit right? You have been online a month and got it all figured out. Your surely gonna be a delta in a year