AWA hiring/poolies

[Captain Overs]

Although any and all chances for employment at Cactus are finished for me, I must admit giving all 'new-hire' positions to furloughed UsAir pilots is the right thing to do. Hopefully the 2 MECs can use this as a positive building block for all future merger talks.
Good luck to all at the 2 pilot groups.

Why are your chances finished? Are you a poolie or just not going to wait until they hire off the street guys?

 

["Luke"]

Heck, how long will that be??

 

[Bobby Orr 4]

Why are your chances finished? Are you a poolie or just not going to wait until they hire off the street guys?

From their MEC hotline message it seems like the new AWA would have to have several hundred to a couple of thousand new hire positions open up before they hire off the street. I am not in their pool...just a guy who had his golden referal in the time they suspended hiring hoping to have an interview.

 

[Formula1]

As for the AWA poolies, I have heard that they are going to keep everyone in the pool until they are needed. That could be several years down the road I am sure. Anyone esle heard the same?

I am now glad that the USAir furloughees are being offered jobs- initially I did not want that to happen since I am in the pool and wanted to work at AWA very badly. I think it is only fair to offer them jobs first.

Now- I wonder out of the 2,000 or so pilots on furlough from UsAir- how many of them are going to come back to work when they get the call? I am sure alot of them are already Catains at Jet Blue, Airtran and other various airlines. I am sure others have started careers in other non-aviation related fields and never plan to come back to flying.

Anyone care to guess on this?

 

[AA717driver]

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[Saabslime]

It will indeed be years before any "new hires" are brought on property. In a good hiring year we were only bringing on about 200. So if you figure even 60% of the furloughed people pass up and we up our hiring numbers, it would still be around 3 years before all the furloughed are brought back.