Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If, continue, could, as early? You take all that as a statement they were going to hire? We read it very differently. I read it as hiring is possible in the 4th quarter depending on a bunch of things. That statement is correct. Hiring is possible. The block hour plan will decide if its needed.
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Sailing,
Agree this had so many outs for management. I took it as a plea for the junior folks to vote for the TA. I think the ultimate reason we will initially hire is not for the block hour plan but rather, the need to lead turn the hiring required for the eventual retirements.
Many have said we simply don't have the training capacity we once had and will be maxed out at 600 per year. What I see happening though is this: The board, in order to not carry extra pilots, will not hire until it's too late and then Flight Ops will be forced to tell the network guys that their glorious plan for world domination is just so much pie in the sky. If they don't think outside the spreadsheet they won't be able to quickly react, and that is the ultimate decision here. To their credit however, our management has repeatedly shown out of the box thinking and the desire to run an airline!