Herman
“The German”
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2004
- Posts
- 47
NW Aviator:
“They say we are growing and going to add 2 more planes into the schedule in January.”
….and those are not 2 new planes, just planes we already have!
“I actually can see a large amount of growth if the company…”
You do know that the “G” word is not approved around QX…right? And just to clarify, we need to get about 20 new aircraft, before we can actually can call anything the forbidden word!!!
Ingenious:
“Alaska is unusal in that it REALLY wants to hire Horizon FO's.”
True…ask the 8 Fos that have already made the jump!
“Alaska hires a comparatively large portion of pilots they interview...they are planning to hire 300+ over the next 2 years...if 30% come from Horizon as planned, that would make a huge dent in the seniority list.”
30% of 300 equals to 90 pilots. QX has some 500 to 600 pilots (not sure), but not only is the 300 number optimistic but 90 pilots is still not a “huge dent”, especially if you spread them over a few years! If you have been waiting a long time for an upgrade, then 90 leaving some above some below your seniority…you won’t be moving a whole lot closer to an upgrade.
“They say we are growing and going to add 2 more planes into the schedule in January.”
….and those are not 2 new planes, just planes we already have!
“I actually can see a large amount of growth if the company…”
You do know that the “G” word is not approved around QX…right? And just to clarify, we need to get about 20 new aircraft, before we can actually can call anything the forbidden word!!!
Ingenious:
“Alaska is unusal in that it REALLY wants to hire Horizon FO's.”
True…ask the 8 Fos that have already made the jump!
“Alaska hires a comparatively large portion of pilots they interview...they are planning to hire 300+ over the next 2 years...if 30% come from Horizon as planned, that would make a huge dent in the seniority list.”
30% of 300 equals to 90 pilots. QX has some 500 to 600 pilots (not sure), but not only is the 300 number optimistic but 90 pilots is still not a “huge dent”, especially if you spread them over a few years! If you have been waiting a long time for an upgrade, then 90 leaving some above some below your seniority…you won’t be moving a whole lot closer to an upgrade.
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