Originally Posted by
Jamers
Any talk of increasing capacity or do you think this stuff will be a net zero change in capacity?
Originally Posted by
avi8tor220
Will this cause a need for you guys to hire? I know a lot of those 717's are replacements for the DC-9, and I know you guys are not going to get 88 717s all at once, but it's still some growth right?
I can only speculate, but putting this rumor together with consistent comments from management about aggressively parking 50 seaters, I think obtaining B717's would indeed require hiring. We won't be able to staff those jets with the pilots we have now. There are only 17 DC9's left, and we still have the 737-900ERs coming starting in 2013. They are supposedly replacement jets, but if the economy is right they could be growth jets.