question about Continental growth

[spacecadet1]

Is Continental hiring about 60/month? How much of the hiring is due to growth and how much due to retirements? What does the retirement timeline look like?

 

[Patriot328]

Is Continental hiring about 60/month? How much of the hiring is due to growth and how much due to retirements? What does the retirement timeline look like?

Don't have the references in front of me, but...


5-7% growth a year for the next couple of years and on top of that 1/2 the pilot list is set to retire in a little less than 10 years from now, I believe.


Subject to change, of course.. :beer:

 

[CAL EWR B737]

Projected Pilot retirements. I believe these numbers do not account for the five hundred pilots we have hired this year. As of the Jan 17, 2006 class we will have 4612 pilots on our list.

2006 - 242
2007- 309
2008 - 237
2009 - 213
2010 - 209
2011 - 217
2012 - 217
2013 - 191
2014 - 200
2015 - 171
2016 - 189
2017 - 179
2018 - 179
2019 - 151
2020 - 143
2021 - 150
2022 - 149
2023 - 178
2024 - 123
2025 - 134
2026 - 103
2027 - 82
2028 - 88
2029 - 85
2030 - 59
2031 - 28
2032 - 19
2033 - 8






Of course if you listen to some on this board you would be better off flipping burgers than take a job with a bottom of the barrel international legacy carrier like Continental!

 

[CAL EWR B737]

Additionally we are junior manning in December and that doesn't bode well for how our airline is staffed. Even with all the hiring we are still well understaffed. I spoke with a good source within CALALPA yesterday. Company plans at least 64 a month through May. Then 32 a month for a hand full of months then up to 48 a month for the foreseeable future.

 

[EMB_driver2002]

Any truth to recs from FO's getting less weight than CA recs? And does anyone have a snapshot of the average new hires' qualifications (TT, PIC, degree, etc)

Thanks

 

[CAL EWR B737]

I don't believe that there is any difference between a CA or FO recommendation. I think it depends more on who is doing the recommending. If the employee who is recommending has a general good reputation and is not one who finds his/her way into trouble then they will take a good look at the one being referred.

 

[pkober]

I reconmended someone 1 week after I was hired and he has a class date in January.

CLAMBAKE

 

[geshields]

I recommended someone 3 weeks after I was here and he is now done with IOE...

CA or FO does not matter. Overall reputation does...

 

[AA717driver]

You have to do like Clambake and recommend someone BEFORE the company gets to know you. TC

 

[pkober]

That hurts.

You need to drop the "AA" and add "TWA".

I don't think Michael Savage would stoop so low as to be Sec of State.

Happy New Year.

CLAMBAKE