Originally Posted by
johnso29
Slide #19 from the annual investors day conference at the end of 2012. The mainline fleet is scheduled to grow by 70-75(I can't recall the exact number) airplanes over the next several years. Actually, the domestic fleet is scheduled to be at 675 airframes by the end of 2015. That's just the domestic fleet.
You are correct that is what the slide said. I have a few thoughts--
1. I have know idea how many 320, 757 and other airframes they plan to remove from service. I only know that up until now all they talk about is removing pilots from 75/76 to fund growth.
2. We have know idea how fat we are in pilots. All crew resources says is we have "a surplus of pilots at a system level we have to utilize our existing pilot staffing"(July crew resources new letter)
3. We also know that according to the July crew resources news letter they anticipate March being the busiest month of flying in 2014 and that the June bid set them up to cover that month. Once again leading me to believe they have enough pilots.
So with all that said, they very well may hire pilots but the letters and corospondance they are putting out say they have plenty of pilots and intend to staff the airline with the "system level surplus of pilots".
I am not saying they are not going to hire all I'm saying is that Crew Resources have not said they are going to hire and continue to say we have a surplus of pilots.