All I remember was serving food on flights. And headsets that were supposed to approved by now.

 

I heard the same thing from the chief pilots. If I recall correctly it went from about <~20 FOs eligible to they think 60-75. Plus there's still going to be new people hitting the 2500tt mark every month. Plus theres new hires like myself in the training pipeline and in ioe that were hired as FOs, but now meet upgrade requirements or are within a few hundred hours of mins.

Attrition is the big variable that nobody knows. And depending on how that turns out will decide if they need to hire another wave of CQs later this year and how many.

With that being said, anyone that can jump in on the CQFO bandwagon, it's probably still a good deal for people looking to leave their current regional. You'll get some PIC time, and at least $44 per hour for making the switch. And an upgrade shouldn't be too far down the road.

 

And in the next breath he said that was based on lower attrition than expected. If attrition picks back up to where they expected then the need for CQFOs will go back up. If what I'm hearing from a lot of guys is true, many will be leaving here over the summer.

Oxley very clearly stated the CQFO program will be slowed down for a while because they want to reduce the number of guys on bypass and they have what we need FOR NOW . I wouldn't expect to see any more until sometime this summer, and that number will depend on how attrition is gong. If all they guys that say they are interviewing get out of here over the next 6 months, then that number will go way up.

 

The CPs have been all over the place with numbers over the last 6 months. Not saying they are misleading anyone but there are so many variables beyond their control anything outside of 30-90 days is reading tea leaves. The biggest variable here is attrition which has been lower than expected. If attrition goes back up the numbers will change again. We have no flow or any ability to manage attrition so these numbers are going to be all over the place for a while.

 

If one of them was the IAD chief… take it with a grain of salt. There's been a bit of misinformation that has stemmed from mgmt personnel in that crew room over the past few months. Not saying everything that's said is a flat out lie, but don't take everything you hear from there and go spewing it all over the forums. Just my .02.

 

first anyone can spew anything they want its a damn forum...
second, it was IAD CP and the System CP...
third it's not misinformation, that information might change but no one is making it up. Most misinformation was spread by FO's who were too naive to realize how this system works.

 

Bend over real quick…. and remove that baton out of your ass that's still stuck there from your previous company.

 

that's typically a response you get one you don't have anything of value to add...thanks for playing

 

Hahaha that was a good one. My hat is off to you good sir.

 

you wear your hat?