Originally Posted by
INNflight
For the record, LH classic/mainline is taking on all the hundreds of cadets they've placed with their subsidiaries at Swiss/Edelweiss/Austrian if they choose to come back (most do of course). I know a few who have gotten their joining dates for this year, both on LH Cargo and mainline.
Problem is they've got enough supply with the couple of hundred ex-LH cadet pilots ("NFFs") to fill their mainline needs, so all applying who didn't train with them are going to go to Eurowings on a different contract.
Still, there's a noticeable shortage here even with the majors. At my airline we're seeing things that usually don't happen. F/Os quitting one major to join another. F/Os quitting in general to go work somewhere else. Never happened in the past years.
Austrian is facing a crewing problem, Swiss is taking direct entry type-rated F/Os onto the A320 because their in-house cadets can't cover demand and training time isn't sufficient and Edelweiss is recruiting heavily for direct-entry F/Os and CMDs also, facing a shortage.
It's a pilot's market here at the moment, even with the majors. Get on the train while you can (and if you're fluent in German... lol).
Lufthansa's outlook is that they will run out of their already trained cadets by the end of 2019/early 2020. Most of them are returning from Austrian and Eurowings.
Lufthansa Airline is plannig to recruit 120 new cadets for the year of 2020. First batch started just last week next one will fallow in june.
They are having a bad time filling up these courses tho as most people are scared to end up at Austrian Airlines or Eurowings Europe where the whole package isn't as good as at Lufthansa. Over the past months they improved the package for cadets and are even paying a signing bonus for cadets starting 2018.
Lufthansa has a big demand because of not recruiting as they used to do the past years and would love to have all cadets flying as of right now but obviously because od training capacity that's not possible.
Most of the Airlines at the Lufthansa Group have a huge demand right now because so many people from the group Airlines are returning back to Lufthansa Airlines.