to be more specific, IAD is pretty rare to get on day 1 of indoc, but it’s always in the vacancies. If you really want to get there quick, pick 737 or 320.

 

Anyone have a list of the unfilled vacancies from this latest vacancy bid?

 

2nd or 3rd vacancy more likely

 

CLE 737 FO 11
DCA 320 FO 4
EWR 320 FO 35
EWR 737 FO 76
IAH 320 FO 30
IAH 737 FO 74
LAX 320 FO 8
LAX 737 FO 5
ORD 320 FO 3
SFO 320 FO 21
SFO 737 FO 26
SFO 756 FO 21
SFO 777 FO 1
SFO 787 FO 11

All of these plus unfilled Captain assignments, but the Captain assignments can't be given out to newhire pilots.

The bid was awarded a couple of days ago and any of the assignments can be given out to new hires for 92 days from bid closing. This is a contractual rule , so other assignments from previous bids are still available as long as the bid was awarded less than 92 days ago.

The company has complete discretion on which bid to give out and which to not give out. So, you will never know for sure which ones will be in your class, but they first have to go "unfilled" on a vacancy bid before being offered to a new hire class, so they will come from that list.

 

Off topic, but what’s the average time to hear back after an application submission? Mine was submitted 5/23. Thanks! I’m sure it varies. Thanks!!!

 

This a hundred times
At 40 I guess I'm on the higher side but how much more hiring is really going to happen ya always my question and has the ship sailed. If united has hired 5000 so far that as you say nearly accounts for all retirements then just growth ?

I know I've asked this a few times in different places but the just crazy hiring is terrifying at 40. At 20 it's a no brainer

Edit. The next 5 years of retirements only come out to 3000+ so we're already at plus 2000 hires in 2028

 

depends if you think they will absorb the majority of regional flying or not. I think there’s a lot of international expansion that’ll occur as long as economies keep rolling , Covid added a lot of points to the map

 

Why is it only United pilots who think this. Most of you came from the regionals correct? You should know better. You won’t be “absorbing the majority of regional flying”. The routes will just disappear.

They’re not going to fly half empty 73’s into these small towns. The routes they do keep will be serviced once or twice a day and that will be that. All flying should be done by mainline pilots anyways.

 

Hence why I didn’t say all of it. I also use to fly 4 hour legs in a 175 between major cities, reduction in frequency while maintaining capacity will require a larger aircraft. It’s been happening for years. United lost 60 CRJ 200s out of ORD alone, those routes didn’t disappear. Look at any filing in the last two years and you’ll see up-gauging mentioned

 

Flying a Max 8 uses far less fuel than a regional, that’s why. Same reason we passed on the Max 7, got an incredible deal on the airplane and uses about the same fuel at cruise. The routes won’t totally disappear, they will be consolidated into 1-2 mainline flights.

The more interesting question is why do prospective new hires think United is unique in the hiring surge? Every major is hiring like mad, we were actually behind in 2019, starting to finally catch up now.