jetBlue Hiring
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There are 294 offline pilots currently. The “Target Active Pilots” for the 12/31 effective date supp bid is 3,929. For 1/31/2022, it’s 3,969. For the last effective date next year, target active pilots is 4,522. Projected offline pilots for that date is 302, so adding target active pilots and offline pilots is 4,824 total.
Also, PVBM doesn’t appear to account for retirements based on the fact that guys show up on effective dates in the bid status long after they are 65. As of today, we have 4,153 on our list and 49 retirements between now and the end of next year. We have hired 134 this year. There are only 7 classes remaining in mint (one appears to have just been added back). To hire 300 this year, we’d have to average 24 in each class (300-134=166/7=~24). That will be tough given the average class sizes of late, but let’s assume we do that. We will end the year with 4,306 (factoring in the remaining retirements this year and with zero other attrition).
If we hire 400 next year, with the 35 retirements in 2022 and zero other attrition, that puts us at 4,671. 4,771 if we hire 500. And if you count other likely attrition we will be between 4,600-4,700 with 400/500 hires, respectively, 300 of which will be offline pilots, so active pilots will be roughly 4,300-4,400…yet we still have vacancies from this bid to fill 4,522 target active pilot slots (which don’t include the 300 offline). So, guess what I’m saying is, even if we hire 300 this year and 600 next year (50% more next year than the figure Lum used), we will still have the vacancies from this bid to fill it. We might be short on captains in some B/E/S though depending on how much buffer they used in their target active pilots, given that they are most of the retirements and some of the attrition.
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I keep seeing people talk about flight time addendums and check ride addendums after their virtual screenings. I completed my virtual screening on the 25th but have not received anything in relation to a flight time or check ride addendum or a F2F invite. Are these addendums a prerequisite to the F2F invite?
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There isn’t such a thing at jetblue “hiring onto” an aircraft. Kind of semantics…but there are vacancies created by bids, and newhires get to bid for whatever vacancies exist and are doled out to each class. There was a newhire instructor who was put on the 220. Don’t think he was a seniority list guy but don’t recall for sure. Haven’t seen any others yet. There were 73 unfilled BOS 220 FO vacancies in the last bid, so unless there is some sort of cancelation bid between now and a year from now, there will be newhires getting the 220 over the next 12+ months.
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thanks, I need to update my app because I included them and they for sure are not on my PRIA, just 1 real checkride failure on my PRIA over 5 years ago. maybe I can get an invite after I update that info. I have 3 LOR's and 2 of them are internal recs.
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