Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I think your going to find that with the long planned retirements on the 757 there will be displacements off that aircraft on most bids. The key is the gain of 77 more Captains slots. This puts us over 275 new Captains in the last 12 months. As long as they are adding Captains then hiring has to follow as the surplus of FO's moves to CA slots.
Is "new" captain like calling the 4/8/3/3 a raise? Or just previous people who used to be able to hold captain that are just now getting back...
Chew on that one for a few.