XJT new hire classes

[BigDave]

I am curious to see how many new hire classes XJT is running and how many new hires are in the class and also when is the next new hire class scheduled and with how many people?

Lots of question, any answers would be great.

Thanks

 

[Britpilot]

The number I heard was 30 per month but this can always change.
The company is looking for Captains to become IOE check Airman in EWR, so I guess they anticipate some business.

 

[Nova]

The first full class of new hires is March 8th with a second class on March 15th. I know someone in the 15th and it seems they are combining 2 jet initial classes in one. So the March 8th will have roughly 15-20 where as the March 15th class will have twice that. That puts the hiring at about 50-60 for the month of March.

I believe it was Nides voicemail that had mentioned 30 a month for the first few months then they would ramp it up to 60+ from there on out. I guess they skipped the slow months and are going full blast from the get go.

So it seems we're going to be running 2 classes a month. That's a lot of pilots.

 

[Ben Franklin]

Personally,

I can't wait to run the ol' industry jokes on the newbies!

I am writhing my hands and plotting for the day when I fly with a new F/O and a new F/A.

Mwah ha ah ha ha ha

Sincerely,

B. Franklin

 

[propdog]

March 15th class

Anyone in March 15th class received an e-mail regarding March 3rd Orientation?

 

[Mr Hat]

Cheers to that Ben!
"Dude, I just got off the phone with scheduling! We are cancelled and there are no hotels! We have to sleep in the plane tonight!"

 

[TOGA]

Ok, come on up here & look into the Stellar Navigation Sight (aka map light). Heh, heh . . .

 

[pipejockey]

Personally,

I can't wait to run the ol' industry jokes on the newbies!

I am writhing my hands and plotting for the day when I fly with a new F/O and a new F/A.

Mwah ha ah ha ha ha

Sincerely,

B. Franklin

As long as you don't make me fly your kite!

BTW, since XJT will be hiring in large numbers this year, will they be drawing candidates from the schools they have bridge programs with? Has anyone heard anything about that?

 

[Nova]

As far as I know neither school with an ab initio program with XJet have started to turn out pilots. It will be 2005 or later before those pilots meet the requirements.

 

[pipejockey]

Regional Airline Academy has a letter of agreement to interview their students. There would be students ready immediately there.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Regional Airline Academy has a letter of agreement to interview their students. There would be students ready immediately there.

That LOA isn't worth the paper it was written on. It was signed pre-9/11. I hope we stay as far away from that scam as possible.

Sam

 

[pipejockey]

Gee thanks for the warm welcome Sam. It's always nice to feel wanted

 

[Sam Fisher]

Gee thanks for the warm welcome Sam. It's always nice to feel wanted

Sorry pipejockey,

But I remember when that "Letter" was "signed." I remember when our logo showed up on the RAA web site without ExpressJet's permission. I remember calling up the RAA myself and talking to the Dir of Training and Admissions and asking him questions about the experience levels of the different instructors and what kind of training these students would get for their thousands of dollars.

The bottomline is, unless things have drastically changed (and I doubt they have), I, along with many others, were thoroughly unimpressed with the way the clowns that run that school did business and presented themselves.

It was hardly, at the time, what I would call a "Quality Provider of Training" and it saddened me to see people buying into this notion and hoax that they would be guaranteed interviews because they weren't going to be...at all.

Bottomline is: The RAA doesn't have students right now that are "ready to be interviewed" to be flying 50 seat passenger jets right now...Sorry.

Sam

 

[Nova]

Regional Airline Academy has a letter of agreement to interview their students. There would be students ready immediately there.

As Sam said, RAA has nothing official to offer. The only official programs are the ab initio programs at Kent State and Auburn. They have instructors that are interviewed by XJet and put through additional training by XJet before they start teaching students selected using XJet guidelines (if not selected directly by XJet personnel). There are other steps and requirements but you get the idea. RAA has nothing like that.