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Old 04-02-2014, 07:15 AM
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Haha! Let me know when you're in Dallas and I'll swing by for a pint or two.
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Old 04-02-2014, 07:27 AM
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So 278 through April 30th. Then 84 more makes 362, and I hear interviews again in August of this year.
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Correction: only shows 22 new hires today
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Originally Posted by coflyr
There were about 50 of us that interviewed the week of March 17th for a class starting April 30. The DB is meeting today, so hopefully calls will start going out soon. My buddy is in class and confirmed there are now 3 classes after the April 30th.
Whoa wait a minute. With the class that started today, that makes 250 NHs since this round started (December 11, 2013 class). So now you're saying that there's another class starting April 30th AND there are three more classes after that? I wonder if those three classes are the group of 84 in June and July or are there actually three classes scheduled between the April 30th group and the 84 this summer?
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Correction: only shows 22 new hires today
My friend said that 5 NHs left for Delta. Who can blame them?
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Old 04-02-2014, 07:58 AM
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So 278 through April 30th. Then 84 more makes 362, and I hear interviews again in August of this year.
Okay, something SERIOUSLY doesn't make sense. Once the integration is done, we'll be fat by about 800 pilots if you use the 11 pilots per aircraft staffing formula. SO WHY THE HELL ARE THEY HIRING SO MANY????

Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic to see it, but my guess is that they're going to snag up a lot more NGs coming off of lease than they're letting on.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but something's going on.
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Whoa wait a minute. With the class that started today, that makes 250 NHs since this round started (December 11, 2013 class). So now you're saying that there's another class starting April 30th AND there are three more classes after that? I wonder if those three classes are the group of 84 in June and July or are there actually three classes scheduled between the April 30th group and the 84 this summer?
We were told 288 hired this round. I don't know if this includes new hires who didn't show up due to another job offer.

The 84 will be the June and July classes after the April 30th new hire class, which are included in the 288.

And yes Whack, I agree that they are going to find some airplanes they haven't already committed to take delivery of.
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Originally Posted by ClippedWing
We were told 288 hired this round. I don't know if this includes new hires who didn't show up due to another job offer.

The 84 will be the June and July classes after the April 30th new hire class, which are included in the 288.

And yes Whack, I agree that they are going to find some airplanes they haven't already committed to take delivery of.
Okay, yeah that all makes sense. 250 so far as of today's class plus the April 30th class which will be another 28 for a total of 288. I doubt those numbers include people that bailed for greener pastures.

So with the classes of 84 this summer that'll make 372 NHs this year (minus the no-shows). Retirements number about 140 so that equates to approximately 3% total growth. In a year that was supposed to be flat?! Yeah, what's really going on in the fleet planning office?

At this rate I should get my original relative seniority back in 10 years instead of the 15 that was originally forecasted and you NHs should be holding a weekends off line in 5 years flat
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Okay, yeah that all makes sense.

So with the classes of 84 this summer that'll make 372 NHs this year (minus the no-shows). Retirements number about 140 so that equates to approximately 3% total growth. In a year that was supposed to be flat?! Yeah, what's really going on in the fleet planning office?
We were also told that 117 will require 3-4% more crews than previously in their expectations.
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Haha! Let me know when you're in Dallas and I'll swing by for a pint or two.
Hopefully I will be down there in a month or two for an interview
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