For those in the ASA pool

[WhendoIgetpaid]

A friend of mine, who flies FO on the 200, was flying wth a captain that is an Instructor Pilot. He told my friend that there would be no new hire classes until April. Couldn't get any more specifics out of him. Thought you guys might want to know.
Sure would be nice to get some positive news at some point.

 

[Texx]

A friend of mine, who flies FO on the 200, was flying wth a captain that is an Instructor Pilot. He told my friend that there would be no new hire classes until April. Couldn't get any more specifics out of him. Thought you guys might want to know.
Sure would be nice to get some positive news at some point.

Yawn...

Old news. There has been several threads on this subject.

 

[COOPERVANE]

My friend, who's brother lives in Salt Lake City, works out with a guy who works for a bank. His boss says that he just saw paperwork for Skywest/ASA to assume the leases for the 737's that Delta is retiring.
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Just kidding, but seriously My brother saw a Boeing 717 painted in Skywest colors in Kuala Lampur on his last visit.

 

[blesko]

hey, seriously, thanks for the intel. Its a deep pool, but we'll see what the light at the end of the tunnel actually is.

 

[boknowsASA]

We won't have a class until we have a contract and a fleet plan, and we wont have a fleet plan until we have a contract! It's just that simple! We are fat right now.


We have 64 crj2 f/o's on reserve for March for 360 hard lines.

 

[boknowsASA]

oh yah saw a Delta 777 in Macon yesterday getting painted to ASA colors we are going to fly it to MCN 3 times a day!

 

[EatinRamen]

I heard from a chief pilot that a new class is in the works, just to keep up with attrition. We're a little fat now, but with more attritions and spring/summer season coming up, we'll need more F/O's.

 

[sweptback]

I heard from a chief pilot that a new class is in the works, just to keep up with attrition. We're a little fat now, but with more attritions and spring/summer season coming up, we'll need more F/O's.

That's the thing... classes take 3 months to be ready, plus the lines will increase in that time period. I'd say there'll be a class in the next month or two, as a matter of fact I think I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

 

[jeroom]

We'll see... After all that time, I almost forgot that I was in that pool...must be a good swimmer by now.

 

[Ganja60Heavy]

I heard from a chief pilot that a new class is in the works, just to keep up with attrition. We're a little fat now, but with more attritions and spring/summer season coming up, we'll need more F/O's.

Yeah...when they start charging us for flights with the lowest priority(S3D), and people realize that their pass privileges are useless, and commuting, even on ASA, becomes impossible and expensive, about 25% of the work force will quit.

 

[~~~^~~~]

I anticipate an announcement in late March. Like others have posted, ASA needs a fleet plan. SkyWest has taken our last 5 CRJ700 deliveries. That represents around 66 pilots - which is what we usually would have trained November to February. Jerry Atkin is going to be meeting with pilots in SLC today - possibly to tell them to pack their bags, again. The good news is that they have not RIF'd the Instructors. They are still paying them 70 seat IP guarantees (well over 100K) while they are out flying the line on the 50 seater (for the better schedules). I'm guessisng they must be planing on training somebody or else they would have dumped some of the IP's.

 

["GO AROUND"]

I anticipate an announcement in late March. Like others have posted, ASA needs a fleet plan. SkyWest has taken our last 5 CRJ700 deliveries. That represents around 66 pilots - which is what we usually would have trained November to February. Jerry Atkin is going to be meeting with pilots in SLC today - possibly to tell them to pack their bags, again. The good news is that they have not RIF'd the Instructors. They are still paying them 70 seat IP guarantees (well over 100K) while they are out flying the line on the 50 seater (for the better schedules). I'm guessisng they must be planing on training somebody or else they would have dumped some of the IP's.

Fins, they were never our 5 planes. They were Skywest Inc's and I wouldn't give more airplanes to ASA with the situation we are in either.

 

[propjockey]

My brother saw a Boeing 717 painted in Skywest colors in Kuala Lampur on his last visit.

This could be. Don't forget there's a Skywest in Australia, but they don't have 717s. They do have Fokker 100s.