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flyingpilot wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:54 am Would you happen to know by any chance how long it takes from getting into the pool to getting into a ground school?
thanks
It depends on the most suitable candidate, my guess is less than 5 weeks in a pool.
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co-joe wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:14 pm
Roundel Randy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:29 pm I have an interview coming up. Just wondering if anyone has any pointers for it. For anybody that recently got interviewed, how long was the wait to get an offer and to start ground school?
In person or video interview?
It was a virtual interview on Teams.
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I completed my interview mid-July and my references were contacted at the end of July. Just playing the waiting game right now. Any idea how long that could take?
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did they give you any information as to when the next ground school date might be?
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No hiring or upgrades in Toronto.
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goingmissed wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:38 pm No hiring or upgrades in Toronto.
I hear that too, they won’t be hiring anyone at encore for the next couple of years .
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ellinas wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:50 pm
goingmissed wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:38 pm No hiring or upgrades in Toronto.
I hear that too, they won’t be hiring anyone at encore for the next couple of years .
Does that include the applicants already in the pool?
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flyingpilot wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:52 pm
ellinas wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:50 pm
goingmissed wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:38 pm No hiring or upgrades in Toronto.
I hear that too, they won’t be hiring anyone at encore for the next couple of years .
Does that include the applicants already in the pool?
Not unless you have a lot of time like 1500 hours, so for the next couple of years I hear they’re not hiring any pilots.
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Let's clear things up. Nobody knows what the plan is for hiring or upgrades other than the November bid has zero hires, upgrades, or transfers to Toronto... a move that is unprecedented at Encore while there is a noticeable captain deficit at the company and an even bigger first officer shortage in Toronto.

Are they closing the YYZ Q400 base? Nobody knows.

Why don't we know? Because management is hell bent on feeding rumours while providing absolutely no information of value other than "Swoop airplanes are flown by pilots too."

tl;dr: There is hiring, but the current hiring period of end of 2022 is looking like YYC only.
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goingmissed wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:38 am Let's clear things up. Nobody knows what the plan is for hiring or upgrades other than the November bid has zero hires, upgrades, or transfers to Toronto... a move that is unprecedented at Encore while there is a noticeable captain deficit at the company and an even bigger first officer shortage in Toronto.

Are they closing the YYZ Q400 base? Nobody knows.

Why don't we know? Because management is hell bent on feeding rumours while providing absolutely no information of value other than "Swoop airplanes are flown by pilots too."

tl;dr: There is hiring, but the current hiring period of end of 2022 is looking like YYC only.
Yeah I heard from a guy I know that is based in YYC that their most likely shutdown YYZ encore, too bad as it would have been a good starting gig.
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ellinas wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:45 am Yeah I heard from a guy I know that is based in YYC that their most likely shutdown YYZ encore, too bad as it would have been a good starting gig.
It's a shame that the "the idiots out west [are] eating out lunch"
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goingmissed wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:38 am Let's clear things up. Nobody knows what the plan is for hiring or upgrades other than the November bid has zero hires, upgrades, or transfers to Toronto... a move that is unprecedented at Encore while there is a noticeable captain deficit at the company and an even bigger first officer shortage in Toronto.

Are they closing the YYZ Q400 base? Nobody knows.

Why don't we know? Because management is hell bent on feeding rumours while providing absolutely no information of value other than "Swoop airplanes are flown by pilots too."

tl;dr: There is hiring, but the current hiring period of end of 2022 is looking like YYC only.
That one was eye opening. I also learned recently from mgmt that there’s no money to be made from widebody flying, and that even though our planes are full we still can’t make any money. Oh and let’s not forget ‘it’s free to train pilots’. :rolleyes:
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ellinas wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:45 am
goingmissed wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:38 am Let's clear things up. Nobody knows what the plan is for hiring or upgrades other than the November bid has zero hires, upgrades, or transfers to Toronto... a move that is unprecedented at Encore while there is a noticeable captain deficit at the company and an even bigger first officer shortage in Toronto.

Are they closing the YYZ Q400 base? Nobody knows.

Why don't we know? Because management is hell bent on feeding rumours while providing absolutely no information of value other than "Swoop airplanes are flown by pilots too."

tl;dr: There is hiring, but the current hiring period of end of 2022 is looking like YYC only.
Yeah I heard from a guy I know that is based in YYC that their most likely shutdown YYZ encore, too bad as it would have been a good starting gig.
Buddy around the corner say alot of things, one thing he probably does not say is that our current contract at encore requires to the company to fork out anywhere from a minimum of 50k upwards to 150k per pilot for a a base closure/ forced move. There not closing yyz for that reason alone, rumours help the management though. Pilots freak out, they start flowing to swoop/ mainline; voluntarily request a base transfer ext....

What is more likely to happen is they attrition down the base (flow, leaving, upgrades ext...), not allow new hires into it, not replace flowing pilots at the base, and relocate most/ all of training to yyc.
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So,

Encore Toronto base WILL shutdown if they don’t have enough manpower. Read between the lines: they will never improve wages, unless the numbers turns red but it’s gonna be too late.

No Gs until November due to training capacity. Read between the lines: apply to Flair or Porter or Jazz for the low timer. Other people apply to WestJet, Transat, AC, Cargojet for the others.

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In their press release they did say they are going to move encore out west and get rid of 10 Q400. Don't know what they're going to do with YYZ-based pilots, either offer them YYZ/YHM swoop or mainline?

Sucks for everyone in the pool, most are probably going to expire and have to reapply.
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pirep wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 1:34 pm In their press release they did say they are going to move encore out west and get rid of 10 Q400. Don't know what they're going to do with YYZ-based pilots, either offer them YYZ/YHM swoop or mainline?

Sucks for everyone in the pool, most are probably going to expire and have to reapply.
They can’t flow them out of seniority. However the company has always done what they wanted and the union had to grieve it.
It won’t be different this time if they decide to flow the yyz base. Which would make sense company wise.
I don’t think you’re gonna expire, however nobody knows how they choose their candidates from the pool.
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From my interview nearly a month ago, they didn't know what was happening with the YYZ base other than it wouldn't be an immediate shutdown (maybe next Spring?).

They were looking for GS out to October. They were only hiring for YYC. And they were very interest in people that could upgrade to Captain quickly (have their PIC time, A's written, etc.).
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Roundel Randy wrote: Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:51 pm From my interview nearly a month ago, they didn't know what was happening with the YYZ base other than it wouldn't be an immediate shutdown (maybe next Spring?).

They were looking for GS out to October. They were only hiring for YYC. And they were very interest in people that could upgrade to Captain quickly (have their PIC time, A's written, etc.).
Hmm, I wonder where they have a pool of people who have theirs ATPL and a bunch of Q400 time operating at the airports that Encore operates... It'll come to me!
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About a month after my interview and a couple of weeks after my references were contacted, I've been notified that I am in a pool of candidates. Any idea of how long it might take to formally get an offer or have a G/S date?
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How long is the training?
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