Atlas Air Hiring
09-03-2016, 10:50 AM
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09-04-2016, 05:13 AM
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Many qualified pilots out there, and I doubt the amount of applicants willing to fly the Queen of the Skies internationally will drop any time soon. Until pilots go away, there is no reason for introducing a new TA at Atlas....
09-04-2016, 06:57 AM
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09-04-2016, 10:20 AM
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Atlas lowered their mins 4 time already since 2011. They had to revamp their training to accommodate the low-experience new hires. ..some now have no jet AND no international AND no flights above 18000'. Also a good number have no turbine PIC. About 1/2 of regional pilots, and probably all pilots, won't do long haul. Next Atlas will have to hire C-172 instructors With bareach ATPSs. Current new hire attrition about 50% is the rumour...and no-shows for class.
09-04-2016, 11:47 AM
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Atlas lowered their mins 4 time already since 2011. They had to revamp their training to accommodate the low-experience new hires. ..some now have no jet AND no international AND no flights above 18000'. Also a good number have no turbine PIC. About 1/2 of regional pilots, and probably all pilots, won't do long haul. Next Atlas will have to hire C-172 instructors With bareach ATPSs. Current new hire attrition about 50% is the rumour...and no-shows for class.
Attrition will increase. Experience levels will continue to go down.
Meanwhile Atlas needs a shat ton of more pilots to staff the Amazon birds. Where are they going to come from and how are they going to be trained? Every time Atlas tries to increase newhires the backlog for IOE gets ridiculously long.
09-05-2016, 07:21 PM
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This is due to how Atlas completes IOE and initial type ride training. At other airlines IOE is part of the entire training process. Instead Atlas separates the type ride from IOE. IOW you'll complete your type ride and then bid for when you want to fly after your type ride. if you don't match up with an LCA then you don't complete your IOE. Also, there are so many changes to schedules that even when you are paired up with an LCA the likelihood of staying matched to that LCA is minimal. Hence it takes a long time to get matched up with an LCA and once you are finally matched up they'll rip the LCA away for another trip and leave you stranded.
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