Continental New Hires

[CAL EWR B737]

Neal,

Congrats on your class date. Guess I was right on target when I welcomed you to CAL what was that six or seven years ago?

I was told several months ago by a senior flt ops manager that March and April was going to be 60 per month than reduced significantly over the summer. However heard rumors of numbers all over the map. What is the latest from the training center on hiring numbers for May through Sep?

 

[BluDevAv8r]

Neal,

Congrats on your class date. Guess I was right on target when I welcomed you to CAL what was that six or seven years ago?

I was told several months ago by a senior flt ops manager that March and April was going to be 60 per month than reduced significantly over the summer. However heard rumors of numbers all over the map. What is the latest from the training center on hiring numbers for May through Sep?

Thanks! Yes how time flies. I'm very excited to start. It was 6 years exactly but who is counting?

The numbers I've heard verify a slowdown over the summer and then a ramp-up again in the Fall.

-Neal

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

No one has been awarded 756 for IAH since before the last bid that closed in January. All 756 awards have been for EWR. Perhaps on the next bid in August.

 

[Patriot328]

No one has been awarded 756 for IAH since before the last bid that closed in January. All 756 awards have been for EWR. Perhaps on the next bid in August.

That is correct.. those guys in the fall snuck into IAH by the skin of their teeth.. They'll be on reserve for a while (not that they care, most of them live there anyway).


Off topic but fwiw, people with DOH+6MOS are holding conversion lines on the 756 in EWR for April.

 

[capt. megadeth]

One guy is 24 years old! Great guy, obviously well connected somehow!

Gee, I wonder what y'all would be saying if he was a she?

"Great gal!"......NOT!

 

[CAL EWR B737]

Talked to the Manager of Pilot Recruitment today. The usual caveat applies this is the latest information, as always however everything is subject to modification.

March and April - 60 per month

May through Aug - 8 per month

Sep looking forward - 32 per month

Interviewing to start back up in August

What I find very positive is that they will continue to hire this summer even if it's only eight per month. In my nineteen years at this company just about every time if not every time Continental has announced a short planned hiatus from hiring in reality for one reason or another it turned into several years until hiring began again. To me keeping the pilot recruitment, new hire system active over a planned slow hiring period is very positive.

 

[nimtz]

Gee, I wonder what y'all would be saying if he was a she?

"Great gal!"......NOT!

Bitter and bothered is no way to go through life Dear...

To the rest thanks for the intel.

 

[pkober]

That is correct.. those guys in the fall snuck into IAH by the skin of their teeth.. They'll be on reserve for a while (not that they care, most of them live there anyway).


Off topic but fwiw, people with DOH+6MOS are holding conversion lines on the 756 in EWR for April.

It looks like IAH is moving quicker on the 737 side. I'm a Oct hire and I got a conversion line for April. Could be due to Easter though.

CLAMBAKE

 

[geshields]

It looks like IAH is moving quicker on the 737 side. I'm a Oct hire and I got a conversion line for April. Could be due to Easter though.

CLAMBAKE

I was hired in July 2005 and have been holding a hard line for 2 months so far (IAH March and April)

 

[Furloughed80]

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