JoeyMeatballs

Not was nothing more than getting Bombardier & Embraer to step up to the plate.........

MoarAlpha

OK so I'm very surprised this hasn't made the boards yet.

Has anyone heard about the 337 new hires (337 seems random, but that's what they heard) before the end of Feb? Two people in class at A-tech told me they heard it from Uppity-ups there in person. They are each in different classes/phases of training.

How would this ever be possible?!

Red97Vette

Your saying they are hiring 337 by feb? You mean 33 - 37 people? No way they can hire that many. We are almost in December.

MoarAlpha

That's exactly what I told them.

Makes no sense.

Someone please get the real story.

xjetsig

Welcome to the new overseas code share.

Hurryage65

...........In hoc?

MoarAlpha

Eh?

What you smokin' man?

AtlCSIP

I heard yesterday to expect another vacancy in the first quarter, which will include additional upgrades.

flyingkangaroo

They already announced in one of the flight ops updates to expect another bid at the start of the first quarter. I don't think they upgraded the ammount you would have expected with the last bid because they didn't have enough first officers to backfill. We really haven't run many new hire classes in a long time so all these new guys coming online will start the cycles again, once we get more Fo's online they will continue to upgrade and likely hire. My guess is that hiring may slow down for the summer but as Delta starts to hire and UAL goes to full scale hiring this fall we will be hiring on both sides.

337 new hires is not possible in that time frame. I think there might be 337 training cycles for 200-700 transitions. That would make sense given the ammount of movement in the last bid. either way people, the training dept is busy and thats a good thing. People hired today will have a very short upgrade (2-3 years)... For anyone from 1400-1050 we are looking at 7+ years.... anyways just my .02

Captain Tony

I heard Line Check Airmen have been told they will be 100% LCA duties until further notice, not line bidding. That hasn't happened for about 6 years. Something is on the horizon.