Originally Posted by
SailorJerry
Alright I'll go look at the numbers again but they have decreased in the last 6 months. What percentage change of a 200 pilot group would you call "stable"? If it dropped to 150 in April, would that still be ~200?
And now that I've looked, here are the numbers over the last year
3/12 - 323
4/12 - 310
5/12 - 318
6/12 - 312
7/12 - 293 (4/8/3/3 duh)
8/12 - 287
9/12 - 279
10/12 - 244
11/12 - 234
12/12 - 231
1/13 - 232
2/12 - 218
3/12 - 208
So that's a roughly 33% decrease. Or a 1% increase in total staffing as of the 3/13 category list.
Sorry dude. 244 is mid 200s. In fact we've only been in the low 200s since this month.
Look, you were the one that wanted to parse words over "~6 months" and "low 200s." I'm not sure why that got all up into your craw so bad.
Your numbers for jan, feb and march are different than that of crew resources, so I'm not sure where you're getting your data. If you're looking at ALPA, their documents are up to a month and a half prior to the claimed date of category list. There is a 7 pilot increase of pilots out on MIL going into March. My point was simply that it is stabilizing and will find a new normal. It will not continue to go down to zero.
Let's see what the MAR update shows tomorrow for that and the projection for APR.