NJE look like recommencing interviews from Nov. (From the office).
Cadets coming online in Nov too. They'll be trickle fed into the pilot stream.
Recruitment has been flooded with applications from Spanair, Zoom and now XL. However, some will be put off with the now 18 month to 2 years predication for LHS.
So far no sign of slow down of deliveries, if anything, after the delays of this year, they're finally coming on thick and fast. Especially the Hawker 750.
Hawker 4000 and Falcon 7X should turn up either end of the year or next year. The crews are already being trained for the 7X. The H4000 has had a few teething problems... an understatement.
Re how NJE is going? Just fine. This is from one of the London bean counters. Sure, the flying rate has slowed down but that's also due to less positioning flights. NJE didn't lay any one off in 2001/2002. In fact, they grew. NetJets USA has not furloughed any one off in over 20 years. How many airlines can say that? The phenomenal growth that NJE has seen over the past 5 years has slowed but no one in the Flight Ops department is complaining. Finally a chance to breath!
Some folks aren't flying as much as they used to, our "high net worth people" aren't largely affected, we're getting more corporations joining as either they get rid of their individual jet or they realise wasting time at check in actually costs them money. (esp if more than 1 pax is flying) The other big bizjet corporations such as TAG have noticed the same thing.
The 2012 Olympics aren't far away. I reckon we'll be busy. All of us.
