I'm not sure any pilots here can give you a firm answer one way or another. People are still moving on. I've moved up (on average) 30 seniority spots a month since starting late last summer so at some point, assuming we're still operating like we do now, we will need additional pilots, since guys ARE leaving. Now however, with several majors putting new hire ground schools on hold, I would expect the attrition rate from ExpressJet to slow down with fewer people leaving each month since most of our departees leave to go to majors. Summer/fall sounds reasonable to me but that's just my opinion. Re: bases, if you were to finish ground school today, you'd get something on the CoEx side of things. West coast, especially LAX, is full. I'm LAX based and the crew room here is plastered with people looking to base trade and come out west. Though they were super junior when LAX and ONT first opened, I think we're to the point now that just about everyone at these two bases wants to be here.
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