Originally Posted by sailingfun

So far the only thing that's happened is the company has done everything with the fleet plan they said they would. It now appears they plan to do even more then their sales job. This forum is focused on hiring when the fleet plan is more important. Lots of reasons they did not hire a small number of pilots this winter. Mil leaves, ER participation, moving up the nines retirement and the fact we are running a really good airline which reduces reserve needs and credit pay.
They will still need the same number of pilots in 3 years. They will just have to compress the hiring. Flight ops did not want to do that but lost that battle.