1000 hour FO's?
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1000 hour FO's?
The advertised minimums are 1000, has anyone ever actually been given a ground school date with those hours?
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slottedslat
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Re: 1000 hour FO's?
Lowest I've heard was 1500 hours with turbine/jet time
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co-joe
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Re: 1000 hour FO's?
This time last year, we were facing the CTA scrutiny, and the pool of overseas pilots had started to dry up, we hired quite a few in around that number. I think the lowest time hire was 1300 hours, but that's just what I heard from a guy who flew with a guy that knows a guy. As soon as the CTA thing was in the rear view mirror the new hire numbers came back up, and then the yyc base, and then the new CBA which also caused an upward trend on the hours we have been seeing. Next Swoop is closing the yeg base and allowing WS mainline pilots to displace them, and I hear we are seeing a lot of them come over rather than face a downgrade or a forced base change to yxx.
Don't be discouraged by this, we are still a very small airline, and our training department is moving as fast as it can. By the end of this year we're going to be halfway to F50, and hiring longer term FOs will start to be a much larger focus. Keep your resume up to date, stay in touch with HR, and open spots here and there will continue to be filled with lower experience people.
Re: 1000 hour FO's?
Flair was already more than halfway to F50 at the end of 2022, but that didn't last very long.
