Originally Posted by
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Brakes on the 90... fantastic. Brakes on the 88 during the landing roll out... great. So great, who needs an ear splitting 1.78 on the EPR on rollout to 60 kts?!?
Alaska has 120 airplanes with a firm order of 75.
If 2/3s of the 75 airplanes are replacement then that means Alaska is adding 25 airplanes to their 120 aircraft fleet. Thus they're increasing their fleet by 21%.
If we increased our 722 mainline fleet by 21%, we'd have 152 new jets and 874 airplanes in total.
If we added 152 new jets to our fleet at 14 pilots per plane we'd have 2,128 new pilots. Or at a more realistic 11 pilots per plane we'd have 1,672 new pilots.
Most of the prior order for Alaska are replacement. A large portion of this order is replacement. Over the next 10 years they are going to average just over 2 growth airframes a year. We will average almost 20 growth airframes a year over the next 3 years.