The Air Canada OTS thread

[AOW]

Sep 10th class had 12 Jazz, 5 Sky Regional, 3 GGN, and 15 OTS. Westjet, Encore, Porter, First Air, Inuit, Transat all represented. 2 military.

[RVR6000]

Word on the street is, 1000 pilots will be hired in the next 3-4 years due to retirement and expansion. The current bids still shows 400 odd vacancies.

[timeflies]

Sep 10th class had 12 Jazz, 5 Sky Regional, 3 GGN, and 15 OTS. Westjet, Encore, Porter, First Air, Inuit, Transat all represented. 2 military.

How many persons by class?

[takamasa]

what is the usual experience for ots guys?

i have 3800 tt, 1200 on 320, nothing from them yet since june.

[Gonzodriver]

CF18 pilots ... That's pretty much it ...

CF18 specifically or military pilots in general?

Non CF18 military pilots would definitely have a decent amount of flight time and being that all RCAF pilots have a degree, they score very high in the AC interview process.

Good to know....asking for a "friend"
Thanks

[iflyroads]

Sep 10th class had 12 Jazz, 5 Sky Regional, 3 GGN, and 15 OTS. Westjet, Encore, Porter, First Air, Inuit, Transat all represented. 2 military.

How many persons by class?

About 40 a class. Till the end of the year.

[Sharklasers]

what is the usual experience for ots guys?

i have 3800 tt, 1200 on 320, nothing from them yet since june.

You have a fairly varied career and worked lots of places and there is (was?) Record sharing between mainline and Jazz so you'd have to be able to come up with a good story about what happened there. Are you still flying in Asia with that type rating you bought or are you back in Canada now?

[fish4life]

what is the usual experience for ots guys?

i have 3800 tt, 1200 on 320, nothing from them yet since june.

any PIC time? they are getting applications from lots of WJ guys with a 7-12000 hour range and a bunch of 705 PIC before a couple thousand hours on 37's

[ARGO]

Has anyone applied OTS over the last 1-2 years and not heard a thing? If so, what type of experience did you apply with?

[FighterPilot]

Has anyone applied OTS over the last 1-2 years and not heard a thing? If so, what type of experience did you apply with?

Applied just under a year ago when the OTS posting first showed up in Oct 2017. Had 3500 then. Just got an email the other day for the video interview.

[ant_321]

Has anyone applied OTS over the last 1-2 years and not heard a thing? If so, what type of experience did you apply with?

Been applying for years. 6000+ hr 737 captain. No post secondary. I’ve had nothing but crickets.

[JohnnyHotRocks]

Applied 6 weeks ago. Got the email for video interview.
5000+ hrs, jet, aviation college.
Can’t bring myself to work for that wage, so I’m out.

[jim67994]

I've kept an active application for 2 years. 8000 hours almost all multi turbine PIC, training captain. Business degree, aviation diploma. I kind of expected a PFO for to no jet, no 705, but so far nothing!

[Alcoholism]

Applied 6 weeks ago. Got the email for video interview.
5000+ hrs, jet, aviation college.
Can’t bring myself to work for that wage, so I’m out.

Sooo.... why did you apply in the first place? Not know what the salary was? Hoping it would change overnight? Playing hard to get?

[Stan Darsh]

Applied 6 weeks ago. Got the email for video interview.
5000+ hrs, jet, aviation college.
Can’t bring myself to work for that wage, so I’m out.

We all agree the starting pay is abysmal, but I can count the number of resignations in the last year on one hand... there's a reason people stick it out for the first few years.

[JohnnyHotRocks]

Applied 6 weeks ago. Got the email for video interview.
5000+ hrs, jet, aviation college.
Can’t bring myself to work for that wage, so I’m out.

Sooo.... why did you apply in the first place? Not know what the salary was? Hoping it would change overnight? Playing hard to get?

Lost my job thank you for asking.
I applied for many jobs. AC certainly wasn’t top of the list but it was still on the list. Found something more suitable.

[JohnnyHotRocks]

Double post oops

[Alcoholism]

My apologies then. Hard to phantom job losses in times like these.

[JohnnyHotRocks]

Private department shut down. Was a great 16years while it lasted.

[Mike87]

Any body got a call for a GS at the end of October? I guess Oct 1st GS is full.

[K.Adams]

I too am wondering if anyone has gotten a call for the upcoming October 22nd Gs? I heard that they are ramping up hiring from express more this fall. Is it all going to be express for that ground school?

[lownslow]

Is it all going to be express for that ground school?

I wonder if there will be a bunch of GGN 1900 peeps in the next few classes?

[Lightchop]

Is it all going to be express for that ground school?

I wonder if there will be a bunch of GGN 1900 peeps in the next few classes?

Why would there be? AC doesn't owe them anything. It's not like all the YYZ jazz RJ pilots were magically offered jobs at main line when the YYZ base closed.

[iflyroads]

Is it all going to be express for that ground school?

I wonder if there will be a bunch of GGN 1900 peeps in the next few classes?

Why would there be? AC doesn't owe them anything. It's not like all the YYZ jazz RJ pilots were magically offered jobs at main line when the YYZ base closed.

As mentioned above I think AC made commitments to some of the 1900 crews who are cadets. As far as my knowledge of the situation goes, every cadet is on the 1900 right now at GGN. Not sure which base or how many are affected by this closure but I'm sure their timeline just sped up considerably.

[Lightchop]

I wonder if there will be a bunch of GGN 1900 peeps in the next few classes?

Why would there be? AC doesn't owe them anything. It's not like all the YYZ jazz RJ pilots were magically offered jobs at main line when the YYZ base closed.

As mentioned above I think AC made commitments to some of the 1900 crews who are cadets. As far as my knowledge of the situation goes, every cadet is on the 1900 right now at GGN. Not sure which base or how many are affected by this closure but I'm sure their timeline just sped up considerably.

Perhaps, but I don't see AC hiring them unless they still meet a certain level of experience?

I was told that AC has had some issues recently with training of some Q400 FOs from other regionals. Making the jump from B1900 FO to main line would be a pretty big risk training wise for AC.