Originally Posted by fisherpilot

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?