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The projections is for 200 new hires in the 2011/1st half. These are being added for non-merger reasons.
I'm confused. I thought these new hires were from the SWA pool due to the deliveries for AAI being consolidated into the overall pool. Is there SWA growth outside of this to support this hiring?
HRDiva
NO.
all growth is due to merger. GK said the airline would be zero growth thru 2012 w/o the aai merger. fwiw
Once the acquisition takes place we will be short pilots. We are going to have to train all of them. I have heard some high numbers but nothing official yet.
The 200 pilots for '11 are not associated with the acquisition. Totally separate. Mostly due to additional week of vacation for 6th yr FOs and normal attrition of pilots over the past 2.5 yrs (about 25 pilots on average come off the line for medical each yr I have heard...some return, some don't)
180 persons approximately in the current hiring pool...expect some to fall out for various reasons (remaining at their current employer, military committments, etc.)....these folks will be the source for the new hires initially for '11.
Interviews will begin in 11/1Q or 2nd to fill remaining requirements.
Growth for the combining of airlines are projected to generate more new hires, estimates are varied from 200-1000 as stated previously....all depends on additional airplane growth.
10.5 ratio of pilots to airplane
Hope that clears things up....again, not official but a WAG.