Originally Posted by
Jack Bauer
For those interested, Alaska had their first groundschool of the present hiring spree today. It was stated that a lot of growth is coming their way with around 300 new hires over the next three years. To give perspective they have around 1420 active pilots right now.
First, I'd love to hear where this growth is going to be. City pair wise.
Second, it's too bad we don't hear Delta talking about a 21% growth in hiring. That'd be equivalent to almost 2,600 pilots being hired in the next three years to bring out list to nearly 15,000 if nobody left. That'd be almost 900 a year. Now I don't know how much of that is to take care of retirements, but I bet "growth" plus "hiring 21%" is not entirely for retirements.