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.
We only will have as many captains as we have airplanes since as you said we have ## of pilots per plane. What's the net number of captains in the last 12 months? How about last 12 months through the next 12 as we lose the 9 and more 757s?