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[Mr Zog]

Sorry, forgot about LGB. It is all in info for posting 02-01.

 

[Mr Zog]

Sorry, just read my post. It is BUR, LAX, LGB, and ONT.

 

[vschip]

New guy,

Been out here at LAX for just about a year, and as far as I know, there isn't a way for you to get notified, unless you log into vips. The schedulers assign trips from 9-11am local, so what I do is just log on around noontime to check if I've been assigned anything. If you've got the nightime reserve, most of the LA basin flights leave around 7pm, a 6pm show, so I'm all packed and ready at home around 230pm, just in case someone goes sick. If you don't get a call by 4pm, odds are the night time launches are all covered. It is a hard 3 hour call, once I've been stuck on the 405, called skeds to let them know I was stuck in traffic, they said get there as soon as I could, was about 5 min late for check in, pushed on time, never heard anything about it(but I'm sure I've got some type of letter in my file). Have only been called out on 3 hour call 3 times in a year, most of the time its assigned to my via vips. Just check it around noon, and before you got to bed, no worries. Good luck staying awake thru indoc.

 

[New FDX Guy]

Grazie!

 

[dixieflyer]

More Hiring.

Just got out of RG. The latest rumor on the street is 30 new hires a month. Also, sometime this year they want to have a "surge" month, where they want to hire 60 in one month. Evidentially they are still pretty short in the back of the 727. Plus 30 upgrades a month as well.

I asked our instructor if he thought the training dept could handle 60 guys in one month. He hesitated and said "I dont know."

As a side note he said it would take about 9 months to train everyone who moves on the seat bid that closes on the 31st.

 

[PurpleTail]

Unless we outsourse our training to other sim facilities (like MIA, DFW-727) there is NO WAY we could complete this size of a training cycle in just 9 months. I'm not an instructor, I'm not in the school house but I think it is safe to say that with so many upgrades and so much movement that this training cycle will be a minimum of 12, probably 18, months long.

Did anyone notice on the practice bid the 737 option is available in Standing Bids?

 

[klhoard]

Yup, the merger with Southwest will be announced any day now. . .

 

[psysicx]

How can a new hire get on with 2000 hrs?

 

[klhoard]

They were 2000 very high quality hours. . . .

 

[New FDX Guy]

I got on with fewer than 2000 hours. Lots of NETWORKING!!!

 

[yahoo]

Thanks very much to all for the information. You've been a tremendous help.

 

[dixieflyer]

Purple Tail,

Yes he also mentioned we would be farming out some training. In fact we are using sims in MIA (Pan Am) and DAL (AA) currently. And there are plans to use a sim in PHL.