tailscrape and obk
I think the "4 year" marker for not recruiting any low hour pilots is pretty accurate.
DHL have got a neat operation running in the UK and seem pretty switched on; judging from the comments made during the round of recruitment days that DHL held specifically for guys & gals with a frozen atpl, id say that what obk heard (From Ginny personally too) is spot on. Pilots with DHL are only flying approx 300-500 hours per year due to the nature of their operation. Therefore it will be at least 3-4 years before any of the low houred frozen atpl's become unfrozen. These folk are also tied into contracts for the next 5 years and are very very unlikely to go anywhere else....why would they with such a good pay deal, great job and nice company to work for !!
Unless there are large numbers of pilots moving between companies within the 757 world, as noted before there are unlikely to be more openings for the recently qualified f'atpl with about 200-300 hours.
Much as I like to believe that us pilot folk can use the force like Skywalker & Co, the only way things are likely to change is if DHL bring on a few more 757's or larger 767s.....
Ahhhh, a nice sporty 75, freshly painted and full of cardboard boxes........now that would be fun to play with.
Goldfinger (now dreaming of climb rates and RB211s at a desk in a gloomy office)
