Southern Air Interview Gouge

[aquila]

January interviews are cancelled.!!

 

[gringo]

January interviews are cancelled.!!

Well, for what it's worth...

http://www.cargofacts.net/profiles/blog/show?id=5184853:BlogPost:2063&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

US-based ACMI operator SOUTHERN AIR has ambitious fleet plans. The carrier, a subsidiary of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, currently operates two 777Fs and fourteen 747-200Fs/-300Fs, but Senior VP Marketing & Sales Roy Linkner was recently quoted as saying Southern intended to add eight 777Fs and ten 747-400Fs by 2014. Parent Oak Hill has two 777Fs on firm order with BOEING, scheduled for delivery in 2012, and two options, which Mr. Linkner said would be converted within the next few months for delivery in 2013. In addition to the six units from Oak Hill, Southern Air tells Cargo Facts that it is “working with major leasing companies on additional 777Fs for our fleet plans.” Regarding the 747-400Fs, Mr. Linkner was quoted as saying they would come from conversions, with the first unit to be redelivered by the end of the first quarter of 2011. Given that a 747-400 P-to-F conversion takes at least three months, this means the aircraft has already been selected and likely already inducted for conversion. (Cargo Facts believes that both BEDEK AVIATION GROUP and BOEING have recently booked 747 conversion orders from unidentified customers, but does not know which will do the Southern Air conversions.) As the -400Fs enter the fleet, some of Southern’s -200Fs will be retired, but the carrier says it still expects to be operating ten of the older units in 2014. Current ACMI customers include:
• Thai Cargo (two 777Fs)
• Malaysian Airlines (four 747-200Fs)
• Korean Airlines (three 747-200Fs)
• Ethiopian Airlines (two 747-200Fs)
• Lufthansa Cargo Charter (one 747-200F)

 

[sg737]

Congratulations on being accepted into Southern Air’s pilot pool. This letter is being sent to you to make you aware of SAI’s hiring plans for 2011.

After evaluating our current fleet plan and future strategic objectives, we have decided to add B747-400 aircrafts at a faster rate than previously planned and retire some of the 747-200F aircrafts. As a result, we expect to have sufficient pilots to staff the -400 acquisitions through the summer of 2011 from the -200 retirements. Consequently, we are placing the hiring of additional crew members on a short-term hold, to be resumed in the second half of the year.

While we hope that you will be available for employment with Southern Air then, we understand and respect that at this time you might need to continue your job search. You will remain in our training pool and we hope that you will join the Southern Air team in the near future, as the company continues to grow.

Sincerely,

 

[tubineotter]

at least ya got a letter. I know of companies that wont send anything and just leave ya hanging.

 

[sg737]

Yeah, I'm not really complaining- just adding to the update....

 

[flyboyike]

Congratulations on being accepted into Southern Air’s pilot pool. This letter is being sent to you to make you aware of SAI’s hiring plans for 2011.

After evaluating our current fleet plan and future strategic objectives, we have decided to add B747-400 aircrafts at a faster rate than previously planned and retire some of the 747-200F aircrafts. As a result, we expect to have sufficient pilots to staff the -400 acquisitions through the summer of 2011 from the -200 retirements. Consequently, we are placing the hiring of additional crew members on a short-term hold, to be resumed in the second half of the year.

While we hope that you will be available for employment with Southern Air then, we understand and respect that at this time you might need to continue your job search. You will remain in our training pool and we hope that you will join the Southern Air team in the near future, as the company continues to grow.

Sincerely,

If this is an actual quote from company material, is anyone else concerned that this airline seems unaware that the word aircraft has no plural form?

 

[Z_Pilot]

This was an email sent to those of us whom passed recent interviews.

My best guess: They got a deal on several -400 airframes (instead of one or two), and instead of growing the fleet initially, they're going to replace some of the -200s first.

 

[bahumba]

If this is an actual quote from company material, is anyone else concerned that this airline seems unaware that the word aircraft has no plural form?

Yeah struck me as illiterate as well

 

[dojetdriver]

If this is an actual quote from company material, is anyone else concerned that this airline seems unaware that the word aircraft has no plural form?

Well, I guess that depends. In some places, the ground crew and others will pluralize the word even in the singular.

'Scume me, I needs ta ack you sumpin', is dis aircraffs goin' out any time soon?"

 

[dakotaHC8]

at least ya got a letter. I know of companies that wont send anything and just leave ya hanging.

That's a good sign of change, the old Southern way would have been to leave you in the dark.