Open up new bases already !

[CaptDukeNukem]

Whats the lastest on new bases ? Seems like a nice place to be, but before they open up at least YOW and YUL, a lot of experienced pilots (myself included) wont join. Smart thing to do is to open them up before air canada scoops the rest of us up when that new agreement comes along, good luck staffing your planes afterwards.

You have to give PD's training department time to catch up, if they opened a western base, they'd have about 200 experienced jet captains knocking on their door tomorrow morning, they can only train so many at a time...

The training department has mostly caught up. The rate at which training is required is in direct correlation with the aircraft delivery rate. So yea, 200 pilots might come knocking. And most likely approx, 187 of them will get hired. Probably around 92 of them from flair . How they get spread out over the classes will be a function of how large of a hotel boardroom they can get versus how fast embraer can find engines for these things.

[dontcallmeshirley]

Think the driving times to YYZ is pointless for a thread about opening other bases.
Those of us that want other bases don’t care if we were given a free house and the commute was a 10 minute drive with zero traffic and 4 good coffee spots on the way…. I still wouldn’t live in YYZ.
New bases need to happen if Porter wants to remain competitive in the current Pilot market and if they have any chance of crewing 75 jets.

I disagree. The cost and complexity of opening a new base is greater than the increase in pilots who would apply to the position.

I don't know if Porter is at the point where the costs are worth it, but I would assume that they are not.

[Aviationanalysis234]

It's official. 3 new Porter E2 bases in 2024. YOW, YUL, YVR!