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Pinnacle Airlines / Northwest Airlink Hires 5 First Officers during On-Site Interviews at ATP

Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. (Northwest Airlink)

On Wednesday, November 2, 2006, Pinnacle Airlines interviewed 5 pilot applicants on-site at ATP’s headquarters in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and all 5 applicants were offered November start dates. This is the second time in under 4 months that Pinnacle Airlines had hired a group of graduates from ATP. ATP is proud to have the highest ratio of airline placements to students of all the leading flight training academies with 129 ATP graduates hired by airlines in the last 12 months and 104 ATP graduates hired in 2006. These applicants were top-of-their-class candidates with 300 to 600 hours of logged flight time.

This is the third time Pinnacle has conducted interviews on-site with ATP. Pinnacle continues to be pleased with the level of technical proficiency and interpersonal skills demonstrated by ATP graduates. ATP is very happy with the ongoing success of graduates receiving job offers with specially reduced minimums in ATP's Pinnacle Hiring Alliance Letter.

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