Originally Posted by
Free Bird
I'd be shocked if Delta hires this year. My guess is new hires in the fall of 2013 or early 2014.
Bottom line is the airline is still shrinking, we are overstaffed and we just voted yes to a contract that requires fewer pilots to staff the airline. Hope I'm wrong and we see new hires this year.
The one thing I noticed is 9 50 seaters left last quarter and 40 more leave in October. There won't be any 717s and therefore any CR9s for another year.
So we can live without those aircraft for a year while having to believe we are in a capacity growth mode.