Originally Posted by
Lifeisgood
Sailing, personally I love your posts, they never fail to pump me up, but here is a few numbers.
According to the ALPA’s bid monitor released on 4jan13:
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013:
10 guys came back from furlough
119 came back from the mil leaves
30 came back from sick leave
It is wonderful to see guys coming back, but with this “effective hiring”:
Number of Instructors (SLI) shrunk by 27.
Pilots required number shrunk by 138.
Total number of pilots has shrunk by 257.
I agree, remember that the company is running every WB fleet through interior mod lines and that resulted in a reduced staffing amount for the larger fleets, once the 7ER fleet and then the 330's are finished with the mods there will be a serious uptick in staffing requirements for the WB fleets. I do not know what the mod lines mean in regards to reduced staffing but it probably runs about 15 crews per plane, and there are 3-5 mod lines running, so that could mean 90-150 pilots less in the staffing needs for the length of time needed for the mods to be completed.