Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We will have a excellent idea if your right in a month or so. In the March bid if the company intends to keep the mainline size flat or shrink will have a net loss to neutral in Captains positions. I think you will be find your wrong when the bid comes out. There will be a substantial net gain in Captains positions.
I have a question, April 1 we had 562 mainline jets and Jan 1 2013 we have 565. 3 jets.
You often claim we got more Captains in this past AE, things are great, but does that take into account the RMA and that those who retire are more often than not Captains? I mean why just focus on Captains? In good times shouldn't we be adding both Captains and FOs?
I mean I'm looking at a category list from around the contract of last year to what they project in May of this year. We gained around 49 Captains(not counting the 9 for this example since it wasn't open when I took this snapshot).
We gained 49 Captains! But we lost 20 in the 777 but gained 9 in the lower paying 330/765 and gained 14 more in the lower paying 7ER. Lost 70 on the 767 but gain on the 737. Lose 9 on the 320 but gain 34 on the 88... which might be increasing because it's only a 5 day course from the 88 to the 717.
I see a trend. Sure it's 49+ new Captains, but, 34 of it on the 88 seems like it just might be for displacement purposes. I don't know, I'm sure you have some inside info on what is the net gain to come for As but I'll want to see from where these new Captains will come from.