American interviews and class dates
02-03-2018, 07:32 AM
#5831
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Joined APC: Feb 2007
Position: C-17s / A320
Posts: 149
Based on my math of pilot retirements versus aircraft retirements, and coupled with the two vacancy bids we've had so far for 2018, I'm forecasting 675 hires for 2018. Hopefully I'm wrong and they hire more... I think 900 is not plausible.
02-03-2018, 09:05 AM
#5832
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Joined APC: Dec 2013
Position: A320 CA
Posts: 2,315
Look at my last post, I cut and pasted for you. The email was from Chuck S. Of crew planning, it’s archived in your aa email 23 Oct 2017. With that said, I agree it won’t happen, I think AFpirate is spot on with 675.
02-03-2018, 10:50 AM
#5833
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Posts: 404
Yea I found that email. That’s the only place I’ve ever seen 900 come from the company and since I rarely check my email that explains why I never saw it. So we can move on now and all agree it ain’t gonna be 900 I think.
02-04-2018, 01:56 AM
#5836
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Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 186
You guys sound like conspiracy theorists with the class numbers. Guess what...
- Numerous sources of info, all of which may be official company numbers from different departments or people
- Training resources change
- Training capacity changes
- High class numbers may decrease as applicants drop at the last minute
I have seen the numbers for this year drop, go up, and drop again. It's entirely possible that every forecast we have seen has been accurate at the time it was forecast.
- Numerous sources of info, all of which may be official company numbers from different departments or people
- Training resources change
- Training capacity changes
- High class numbers may decrease as applicants drop at the last minute
I have seen the numbers for this year drop, go up, and drop again. It's entirely possible that every forecast we have seen has been accurate at the time it was forecast.
02-04-2018, 04:39 AM
#5837
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Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: Fully Retired
Posts: 7,000
You guys sound like conspiracy theorists with the class numbers. Guess what...
- Numerous sources of info, all of which may be official company numbers from different departments or people
- Training resources change
- Training capacity changes
- High class numbers may decrease as applicants drop at the last minute
I have seen the numbers for this year drop, go up, and drop again. It's entirely possible that every forecast we have seen has been accurate at the time it was forecast.
- Numerous sources of info, all of which may be official company numbers from different departments or people
- Training resources change
- Training capacity changes
- High class numbers may decrease as applicants drop at the last minute
I have seen the numbers for this year drop, go up, and drop again. It's entirely possible that every forecast we have seen has been accurate at the time it was forecast.
We are reporting significantly different numbers within days of each other and sometimes at the same time. That does not mean the forecast changes multiple time in the course of a week or even a day.
It means to me that some data source is obsolete. It needs to be updated. Otherwise we have the old expression, “A man with one watch knows what time it is, a man with two never does.”
At least that is the way I see it.
02-05-2018, 01:57 PM
#5838
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Joined APC: Jul 2015
Position: a320 capt
Posts: 52
FWIW
Delta hired more than 1,000 pilots in 2017. Since the airline resumed hiring in 2014, more than 4,000 pilots have joined the seniority list. Newly hired pilots range in age from 23 to 56 years old, and civilian pilots (56 %) outnumbered military pilots (44 %)
02-05-2018, 05:42 PM
#5840
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Joined APC: Aug 2016
Position: Fully Retired
Posts: 7,000
How many MLOA, LTD, and various other LOAs coming back are they forecasting for 2018? Or, if you don’t have that, how many actuals were there in 2017?
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