Originally Posted by
slowplay
Interesting. The numbers on the flight ops website show about 3500 retiring in the next 10 years (through 2021), with another 3800 going 2022 through 2026. Looks like they're planning on some measured growth, or trying to get ahead of the 800+ retirements per year after 2020.
In 10 years 3500 are retiring but we're hiring 7000?
Maybe that double the retirement coincides with 130 739s coming on line within 10 years?
