Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
So, the net gain will be about 240 pilots (or roughly a 2% increase)? IF the others "Legacy" carriers can follow suit and add 2%, that is only another 600 new slots. If the LLCs do likewise, that is an addition 250 slots. Cargo companies, and maybe another couple hundred..
So IF EVERYBODY grows as much as it APPEARS Delta will, there might be enough openings to re-employ about half of the Pinnacle folks after we go tango uniform.* Yeah, how about that pilot shortage!
Hey, it's great you are taking back some jobs: G#d bless y'all. But the reality is, for some of us old farts, it's too little, too late.
*Sorry Comair folks, I would have put you guys ahead of us, but I couldn't remember how many of you there were.
Not quite. At the time the ISL was announced we had 12,434 pilots. We are now down to 11,796 pilots. That's 638 less pilots. We are looking at 20 planes more then we had at the time of the merger. So we are looking at over 800 new positions.