untied

When the regionals are canceling flights due to lack of crews, it hurts the Major they are serving. Soon, you will see UAL, AMR, and DAL stop hiring from their own regionals since grabbing pilots from other places not only keeps the schedule intact, but you can hurt the other guy by making HIS regional affiliate cancel flights.

It has happened before.

John Carr

UAL won't take an RAH/SKW pilot flying UAX, but they'll take an RAH/SKW pilot flying American Eagle, USAir Express, or Delta Connection.

AA will take their flows, they won't hire an SKW/RAH pilot flying American Eagle, but they'll take an SKW/RAH pilot flying United Express/Delta Connection.

Delta will take their flows, but they won't hire an SKW/RAH pilot flying Delta Connection. But they'll hire a SKW/RAH pilot flying American Eagle, USair Express, United Express......etc etc etc........

At one time, it was a plausible scenario. Now it's just simply mutually assured regional feed destruction with the uber regionals having FFD/CPA's with multiple legacy airlines.

There are times when those pilots could fly 2, and sometimes 3 of those paint jobs in a SINGLE day depending. So even though they could exclude/discriminate by domicile, that wouldn't even be a workable "fix".

circleflyer

Delta's getting backed up in training too as they have just about as many (if not more) new hires coming on board as UA. My friend was hired in February and was told to expect a June (or so) class date.
Should be interesting to see what happens with the regionals--when the WSJ is writing articles about their woes you know there's a crisis afoot.
Thanks again, all (esp. MPA), for the updates: you're helping me keep my sanity.

Really

Just curious, when you hired do you mean put in a pool or actually getting paid while waiting to get trained?

Hilltopper89

You don't get paid til you start class. If you did this thread would be half as long.

130drvr

If that

MPAdriver

If you did....no one would have ever known "MPA".

I could have lived with that, and I am sure you could to.

Luvnflyn

Sorry to interrupt the cheeky humor but I'ld like to be added to the list. I was a December 2 interviewee. Thanks.

MPAdriver

You got it. Welcome to the waiting party.

Luvnflyn

It is great to be here, but we all know that