Originally Posted by
tsquare
What deflection? AMR has 1000 furloughed... DAL has zero. Oh... I see now.. it is the RETIREMENTS... gotcha.

So you are saying DAL has grown in the last 6 years, needing to hire? Pretty sure we have about 6% less pilots than in 2008. OK, I'll change things up for you and ALFA. Why were any pilots hired by NWA or DAL since, hmmm, 2005? Was it the rapid expansion of flying or retirements?