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08-22-2018, 03:52 PM
#8261
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I’ve heard that the company is tight on reaching their annual goal of keeping non-fuel cost increases to 2% or less. It would not surprise me at all for them to put themselves in a very tight staffing pinch in order to wait until after the beginning of the year to incur costs associated with new hires in Flight Ops.
08-22-2018, 03:57 PM
#8262
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I’ve heard that the company is tight on reaching their annual goal of keeping non-fuel cost increases to 2% or less. It would not surprise me at all for them to put themselves in a very tight staffing pinch in order to wait until after the beginning of the year to incur costs associated with new hires in Flight Ops.
08-23-2018, 07:43 AM
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08-23-2018, 08:08 AM
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08-23-2018, 09:28 AM
#8267
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"Whisper" (used without permission of Capt Bob Adomi) from Flight Ops meeting said no new hire classes for Sept or Oct.
Hired 525 pilots so far in 2018.
Need another approx 260 for summer 2019 ops manning requirements
From that, my edu-macated guess would be for classes to start again in Nov, with roughly 60 noobs per month. That would put the last group of 60 starting in Feb 2019 and being on the line NLT May'ish to be full up for summer ops.
Best of luck to everyone waiting.....keep the faith...big D is a great place to work!
Hired 525 pilots so far in 2018.
Need another approx 260 for summer 2019 ops manning requirements
From that, my edu-macated guess would be for classes to start again in Nov, with roughly 60 noobs per month. That would put the last group of 60 starting in Feb 2019 and being on the line NLT May'ish to be full up for summer ops.
Best of luck to everyone waiting.....keep the faith...big D is a great place to work!
08-23-2018, 09:38 AM
#8268
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Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: Kickin’ Back
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During C2012 I seem to remember SD saying we would need to start hiring soon or something to that effect. Then the company wanted to impress Wall Street by having X amount of profitable quarters and that delayed the projected hiring. The company achieved its goal but at the expense of falling behind on manning.
Denny
08-23-2018, 10:08 AM
#8269
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Joined APC: May 2012
Posts: 1,166
That’s the point. We didn’t hire during that time and got behind the manning power curve.
During C2012 I seem to remember SD saying we would need to start hiring soon or something to that effect. Then the company wanted to impress Wall Street by having X amount of profitable quarters and that delayed the projected hiring. The company achieved its goal but at the expense of falling behind on manning.
Denny
During C2012 I seem to remember SD saying we would need to start hiring soon or something to that effect. Then the company wanted to impress Wall Street by having X amount of profitable quarters and that delayed the projected hiring. The company achieved its goal but at the expense of falling behind on manning.
Denny
08-27-2018, 04:04 AM
#8270
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Joined APC: May 2015
Position: LAV
Posts: 187
"Whisper" (used without permission of Capt Bob Adomi) from Flight Ops meeting said no new hire classes for Sept or Oct.
Hired 525 pilots so far in 2018.
Need another approx 260 for summer 2019 ops manning requirements
From that, my edu-macated guess would be for classes to start again in Nov, with roughly 60 noobs per month. That would put the last group of 60 starting in Feb 2019 and being on the line NLT May'ish to be full up for summer ops.
Best of luck to everyone waiting.....keep the faith...big D is a great place to work!
Hired 525 pilots so far in 2018.
Need another approx 260 for summer 2019 ops manning requirements
From that, my edu-macated guess would be for classes to start again in Nov, with roughly 60 noobs per month. That would put the last group of 60 starting in Feb 2019 and being on the line NLT May'ish to be full up for summer ops.
Best of luck to everyone waiting.....keep the faith...big D is a great place to work!
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