Originally Posted by goose

I'm not much of a rumor guy, but I wanted to hear your take on this rumor I heard from a pilot in the training department. He said that this is what the company number crunchers are seeing in our future.

"With pibs and more efficiencies our pilot force will be down to about 3000 pilots... Without pibs, but with improved efficiencies our crew force will be about 3600."

I don't see pibs in the future. But doesn't it seem like they have squeezed us as much as they can, with the optimizer? I know that going to an all Boeing fleet with require less pilots. But my question is, if their goal is 3000 to 3600 pilots, why aren't they able to do that right now?