Originally Posted by
Gearjerk
Ahhhhhhhhhh,
<picture person drinking a nice cold beer on a hot day> that's refreshing......more doom & gloom.
Of course the company couldn't be "behind", and have made a mistake by "not" hiring pilots and are just now putting forth smaller AE's to staff the smaller equipment as they need for summer flying. (Read: So they don't have to cancel domestic trips for lack of crews.
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GJ
P.S. Continue the "sky is falling, we'll never hire, never get a raise, never make it to the left seat" banter. I prefer to maintain my excitement for the fall when we "do" hire, and for the future of Delta Air Lines and it's pilots.
I know right. Of course we'll hire at some point. We'll also order more widebodies and narrowbodies. But will we hire any growth pilots or get growth planes? Its entirely possible that we will continue to shrink *yet another* thousand pilots in a several year period while still hiring a few hundred a year and taking delivery of new planes that replace other planes on a capacity negative basis.
FWIW I think we'll hire in 2014 but I don't think it'll be gangbusters or "growth" even by today's 1000 pilot deficit over the last few years.