Hiring at the regionals

[ualdriver]

So what's going on with the hiring situation at the larger regionals now? Are they hiring? And if they are hiring, are classes getting filled more easily now? Just curious.......

ualdriver

 

[Erlanger]

So what's going on with the hiring situation at the larger regionals now? Are they hiring? And if they are hiring, are classes getting filled more easily now? Just curious.......

I'd be curious as to why you're curious.

From what we're being told at Skywest, all hiring for pilots and flight attendants has been indefinitely suspended as of last week. Letters were sent to new hires, both pilots and F.A. (I've seen the letter) about this and were offered the opportunity to interview at our "sister" company (as the letters said). We're not being told why but from what I have been hearing is that Delta is going to be announcing substantial cutbacks in SLC that will affect Skywest company wide, as well as Delta itself. May have something to do with the possible Delta/Northwest merger, though how could they know so soon about the affect in SLC so soon?

I would think that if the UAL/CAL merger goes through and other mergers follow, it would affect all regional hiring as well.

 

[ualdriver]

I'd be curious as to why you're curious.

Because to me, the regionals are the "canary in the coal mine" as to what's going on with pilot hiring. If the industry is starting to develop a shortage of pilots, you guys will be the first to see it. Vice-Versa if we're starting to show a glut.

For a while there, no regional could fill a class no matter how hard they tried. Now with Age 65 kicked in, I was wondering if the regionals were able to fill classes now.

What's going on at the other regionals?

 

[Flyby1206]

Because to me, the regionals are the "canary in the coal mine" as to what's going on with pilot hiring. If the industry is starting to develop a shortage of pilots, you guys will be the first to see it. Vice-Versa if we're starting to show a glut.

For a while there, no regional could fill a class no matter how hard they tried. Now with Age 65 kicked in, I was wondering if the regionals were able to fill classes now.

What's going on at the other regionals?

I think the majority of the regionals are having a lot of trouble finding warm bodies to fill the classes. Here at AE we are in a shortage and have lowered our minimums to 400TT/50ME and some are getting hired with much less than that. For a good gauge of how desperate the regionals are, I look at the hiring mins. Check this: Regional hiring mins

Many companies on that list were recently at 1000-1500 total time and 100-300 multi time. The majority of regionals are just hiring to cover attrition. Expansion these days at the regional level is rare, and Skywest and CHQ are some of the only ones who are marginally growing. Some carriers are even hiring direct entry captains off the street such as Colgan, Mesaba and Pinnacle I believe. Carriers are desperate now, but if this wave of mergers happens I expect the staffing problem will go away temporarily due to reduction of regional feed needed.

 

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I'd be curious as to why you're curious.

From what we're being told at Skywest, all hiring for pilots and flight attendants has been indefinitely suspended as of last week. Letters were sent to new hires, both pilots and F.A. (I've seen the letter) about this and were offered the opportunity to interview at our "sister" company (as the letters said). We're not being told why but from what I have been hearing is that Delta is going to be announcing substantial cutbacks in SLC that will affect Skywest company wide, as well as Delta itself. May have something to do with the possible Delta/Northwest merger, though how could they know so soon about the affect in SLC so soon?

I would think that if the UAL/CAL merger goes through and other mergers follow, it would affect all regional hiring as well.

And ASA is going to do pretty good!

 

[N813CA]

Comair is hiring 8 pilots a month

 

[rumpletumbler]

Interesting. 500/50 is ASA's requirement. I have like 500/150 but I haven't flown in 2.5 years. I'd like to work for them though as I live in ATL. I certainly don't feel qualified to work for them. That's pretty low.....

 

[flap operator]

No problems hiring at Mesaba. Classes filled at this point through May. Turning away more than we're hiring. Hmmm... not so bad I'd say. Street Captains were a short term fix for a massive ramp up in hiring so the saabs could keep flying as current saab CAs left for the jet. Don't believe the spin... believe the facts.



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[ASA_Aviator]

Interesting. 500/50 is ASA's requirement. I have like 500/150 but I haven't flown in 2.5 years. I'd like to work for them though as I live in ATL. I certainly don't feel qualified to work for them. That's pretty low.....

Go get current... The best way is to get your instructor certificate, and find a job instructing. There are LOTS of instructing jobs around.

A lot of people want to just rent a warrior for a few hours and call themselves current. You aren't going to get an interview that way.

You may want to consider an advanced jet course as well.