Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
Yep. If we hire this year I wouldn't excpect to see anthing about interviews until September. Probably have classes late this year or early 2013 to have new hires on the line for summer 2013.
We'll see how the early-out stuff goes and the "re-alignment" of categories go in the next bid. I have flown 2 out of the last 60 days and sat 2 short calls, so some categories are very overstaffed for the fall/winter season if we aren't working during the summer. I would bet if we do hire it will be a very small number for 2013.
Gotcha! I have heard that all the training department (as of now) can handle a year is 600 newhires. I have read on here that there is an estimated 7000 pilots retiring the next 10 years. If the training capacity is true and is not increased I'm assuming they will have to be fat on pilots for a while in order to not get behind the curve of folks leaving..... Thoughts? Any truth to this?