Interview result

[Tbayer2021]

End of May PIT has been canceled.

[Flathead05]

End of May PIT has been canceled.

Damn guess we won’t be getting calls back for a while then

[canidule]

A friend of mine who applied in February did the interview, medical, reference check, etc. Then after all that got an email saying they will contact for a 2nd interview... Seems odd to me but I don't know the process

[TheCanuck]

anybody get a call after applying post january ?

Applied in Jan
Interviewed in Feb
Got a call in April
PIT in mid May

[Dias]

Applied in Jan
Interviewed in Feb
Got a call in April
PIT in mid May

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

[fixnfly]

Applied in Jan
Interviewed in Feb
Got a call in April
PIT in mid May

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

[Dias]

Applied in Jan
Interviewed in Feb
Got a call in April
PIT in mid May

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

I think if the Liberal party is reelected Alberta and Saskatchewan will eventually secede. Probably BC not too long after that. Air Canada will become smaller and less profitable due to less passengers and more expensive jet fuel.

[TheStig]

Applied in Jan
Interviewed in Feb
Got a call in April
PIT in mid May

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

Hiring in 2024 will likely pause until the fall possibly winter. As noted the airline has lots of firm orders but the EIS for the 321XLR and 787-10 appear to be slipping into mid 2026 from late 2025, that alone would be reason enough to pause PIT classes for 4-5 months. If there isn't a slight panic in YUL over the potential for a recession, I'd be shocked. US carriers have already made public statements about weakening demand. Air Canada's #1 priority is to make money, not growth, not recapturing lost market share, or entering into price wars. Matching capacity to demand will be their objective.

[cdnavater]

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

Hiring in 2024 will likely pause until the fall possibly winter. As noted the airline has lots of firm orders but the EIS for the 321XLR and 787-10 appear to be slipping into mid 2026 from late 2025, that alone would be reason enough to pause PIT classes for 4-5 months. If there isn't a slight panic in YUL over the potential for a recession, I'd be shocked. US carriers have already made public statements about weakening demand. Air Canada's #1 priority is to make money, not growth, not recapturing lost market share, or entering into price wars. Matching capacity to demand will be their objective.

Plenty of airframes getting long in the tooth that could be replaced by the orders, I would not hedge my bets on any real growth for the next couple years, lots more to come in the next few months

[Dry Guy]

Don't forget the new taxes and fees on flying that Carney will introduce to discourage people from air travel.

[skybluetrek]

How long is the medical and interview valid for? Can they ask you to do those again?
Thank you.

[flieslikeachicken]

A friend of mine who applied in February did the interview, medical, reference check, etc. Then after all that got an email saying they will contact for a 2nd interview... Seems odd to me but I don't know the process

Par for the course. Air Canada likes to have you jump through all of the hoops and tell you that they'll get back to you in 2.5 months. After the 10 weeks they'll tell you that you were unsuccessful in the interview and that they'll contact you for another one.

Now imagine what it's like to work for a company that strings along prospective employees like that.

[Flyboy736]

Don't forget the new taxes and fees on flying that Carney will introduce to discourage people from air travel.

Source? Trust me bruh

The actually reality is Carney copied PP in getting rid of the carbon tax saving 15% in fuel costs when fueling up in Canada (so approx 9% overall reduction)

Show some sources for these new trades and fees because I'm not seeing any other than speculation

[Blueontop]

End of May PIT has been canceled.

Asked a friend in the training department, confirmed 1 PIT in May and only 1 PIT a month moving forward for the time being.

[CaptDukeNukem]

End of May PIT has been canceled.

Asked a friend in the training department, confirmed 1 PIT in May and only 1 PIT a month moving forward for the time being.

Resume stacks getting low. Across the country

[The Brantford Boomer]

Source? Trust me bruh

The actually reality is Carney copied PP in getting rid of the carbon tax saving 15% in fuel costs when fueling up in Canada (so approx 9% overall reduction)

Show some sources for these new trades and fees because I'm not seeing any other than speculation

Source is Mark Carney

https://x.com/AndrewScheer/status/19121 ... AQzHQ&s=19

[CaptDukeNukem]

Source? Trust me bruh

The actually reality is Carney copied PP in getting rid of the carbon tax saving 15% in fuel costs when fueling up in Canada (so approx 9% overall reduction)

Show some sources for these new trades and fees because I'm not seeing any other than speculation

Source is Mark Carney

https://x.com/AndrewScheer/status/19121 ... AQzHQ&s=19

Dude, vote for yourself. Don’t try and make others change their minds. People ask for sources all the time on here. Posting one from a different party cutting pasting lines that were said at any given point during a campaign where (I think) no one actually knows what they are saying anymore, is boring rhetoric. It’s all just a show. It always has been. Quoting these people means little to nothing.

[AV80R]

I'm sorry you're upset. The person asked for a source and they provided one.

[Dry Guy]

Dude, vote for yourself. Don’t try and make others change their minds. People ask for sources all the time on here. Posting one from a different party cutting pasting lines that were said at any given point during a campaign where (I think) no one actually knows what they are saying anymore, is boring rhetoric. It’s all just a show. It always has been. Quoting these people means little to nothing.

What are you talking about? It's a video of Carney saying you push up the tax on flying, and increase the cost of transport for carbon reasons.

[Hotoffthepress]

End of May PIT has been canceled.

Asked a friend in the training department, confirmed 1 PIT in May and only 1 PIT a month moving forward for the time being.

Resume stacks getting low. Across the country

As in not enough suitable candidates?

[LongBranch]

Asked a friend in the training department, confirmed 1 PIT in May and only 1 PIT a month moving forward for the time being.

Resume stacks getting low. Across the country

As in not enough suitable candidates?

This is just hear say but in passing an ACP on my most recent line check was telling me during a transport Canada seminar he attended that they were told less than 400 CPL have been signed off per year since covid. Those numbers alone if somewhat accurate (let’s double it to 800 CPL) are completely unsustainable, big red alone is retiring 150 pilots a year. Plus WestJet, Porter, corporate, northern flying the numbers simple don’t add up.

[bluejay]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

[Flathead05]

Has anyone gotten a call that’s interviewed recently? Any idea what the next PIT dates are?

[Dvrtedpath]

Any chance anyone knows the upcoming PIT dates?

[rudder]

Good for you! I suspect there won't be more hiring for years.

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

Hiring in 2024 will likely pause until the fall possibly winter. As noted the airline has lots of firm orders but the EIS for the 321XLR and 787-10 appear to be slipping into mid 2026 from late 2025, that alone would be reason enough to pause PIT classes for 4-5 months. If there isn't a slight panic in YUL over the potential for a recession, I'd be shocked. US carriers have already made public statements about weakening demand. Air Canada's #1 priority is to make money, not growth, not recapturing lost market share, or entering into price wars. Matching capacity to demand will be their objective.

At least publicly, there seems to be very little clarity about the actual operational fleet plan.

Yes, there are ‘fleet charts’ contained in the MD&A. But there is also commentary on the Q&A segment of the quarterly calls about “retire some older aircraft ” that is not yet reflected in the fleet charts.

Cameron Doerksen

Good morning. Just a question on the fleet. And obviously, there's been a number of aircraft that have been kind of pushed to the right here. But if I look at 2026, 35 aircraft coming in is a pretty big chunk of planes. So, I'm just wondering how you manage that kind of high level of deliveries coming in? And are you thinking about any potential opportunities to maybe defer some of those to later years, just to kind of smooth out the delivery profile?

Mark Galardo

No, in 2026, I mean, from a widebody point of view, we'll see maybe a couple of 787-10s, and we'll start seeing the first 321s, the XLRs, and we've been waiting for those for a long time, right? So, I think that we'll see the cadence of them. But our expectation now is probably starting in Q1 '26, we start taking those aircraft. And there's a lot of 220s. I'd say that overall, we've been waiting for these aircraft. We're ready to deploy them, and we'll be bringing them in, in 2026, and we plan for the CapEx.

So, we're managing the business around those parameters, and we have been for now, probably a couple of years in anticipation. So, I don't see anything else needed to be done really to enable the effect of deployment of the aircraft, and we have opportunities here to retire some older aircraft as well.

Michael Rousseau

Yes. And Cameron, it's Mike. Just to pile on I mean, we've built the resources around to take these planes in. These planes are important to our new frontiers plan to our long-range plan. And so, we're excited and the entire company is excited about taking these 4 type fleet types in next year. And so, we're ready to take them in and leverage them as we go forward.

So I guess the question is - what is this ‘new frontiers’ plan?

When is the Rouge transition to the 737MAX? What will come of the current Rouge NB fleet? Repatriation to mainline? One cannot help but think that will result in the continued retirement of the 319 fleet.

B767? That cannot be a long term fleet type. And the freighter operation?

B777-200? Replaced by 787-10?

Fleet plan shows +35 airframes in 2026. That would normally equate to 500-600 pilot positions. Some of these positions are probably already baked in to the 2025 bids to date. But there are probably some underutilized airframes and others that will ultimately be departing the fleet. The economy and US travel patterns will also affect fleet decisions.

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