Summer 2017 Pool
08-17-2017 | 03:15 PM
#71
Banned
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: Narrow/Left Wide/Right
This industry is way too fickle for anyone to put their own career advancement on hold while a particular company decides whether it needs more pilots or not.
The ONLY smart play as a pilot is to send resumes to every company you'd be happy to make a career at until one of those companies calls, and then keep updating until your precious chosen one says yes.
Oh BTW if UAL doesn't hire another pilot till March of 2018, there will be 10 others that think this timing is just perfect! It's not personal, it's business.
08-17-2017 | 03:36 PM
#72
Widebody
Joined: Apr 2010
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From: 777 CAP
08-17-2017 | 05:38 PM
#74
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2006
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From: 737 CA
08-17-2017 | 05:49 PM
#75
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 3,599
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From: 787
IAH 777????? Really?
08-17-2017 | 06:27 PM
#76
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Between all the pilots still on some sort of furlough status that have to return sometime in 2018 and the displacements, the training dept seems pretty buried. I'd guess the company doesn't see the logic in bringing a bunch of new-hires on books and then having them sit around waiting for training. I don't think the sky is falling. Is it a let down that new pilots aren't coming on board as quickly as we would all like?.... of course. I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic (for now) that the company is just putting the existing manning where it needs to be.
08-17-2017 | 07:04 PM
#77
Line Holder
Joined: Aug 2012
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The story I've heard from a reasonably reliable source:
1. The company is slightly OVERstaffed but pilots aren't staffed where they need to be (IAH 777 and IAH 756, specifically).
2. A lot of "surplus" pilots from the -400.
3. TK backed up because of the bumps.
All of that along with Kirby's claim of increasing block hours without additional hiring. The sky is not falling (yet), but frustrating to see classes cancelled.
Wait a week and we'll be back too hiring 1200 this year.
1. The company is slightly OVERstaffed but pilots aren't staffed where they need to be (IAH 777 and IAH 756, specifically).
2. A lot of "surplus" pilots from the -400.
3. TK backed up because of the bumps.
All of that along with Kirby's claim of increasing block hours without additional hiring. The sky is not falling (yet), but frustrating to see classes cancelled.
Wait a week and we'll be back too hiring 1200 this year.
08-17-2017 | 07:17 PM
#78
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 819
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From: 756 left
Yes, IAH 777, eventually.
08-17-2017 | 10:39 PM
#80
Squawking 2000
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 737
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From: Skeptical
Between all the pilots still on some sort of furlough status that have to return sometime in 2018 and the displacements, the training dept seems pretty buried. I'd guess the company doesn't see the logic in bringing a bunch of new-hires on books and then having them sit around waiting for training.
If anything I'd imagine the narrowbody LCA and SIM instructors are a bit bored waiting for BI classes to start running again.
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