Originally Posted by
Zoomie
We're just playing musical chairs at the moment. All these retirements we thought were going to move up in reality will just amount to stagnation since many of the retirement positions are currently being shrunk through attrition.
Bingo. Just ask a Delta pilot how many less pilots they have now vice when their merger occurred.
Answer: about 1000
And that's with a mgmt that is ostensibly sharper then UCH and is expanding their network. Although, I'd be interested to see the cost to the pilot group voting in the 76 seaters in the 90 seat airframe.