Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Official approval to maintain a hiring rate of 50 pilots per month has been obtained through APR of 15.
That's cool, but is only one more class beyond what was already slated. Will Flt Ops have to seek and get approval for each and every single class from now on? That seems way higher profile than just opened ended hiring. If anything, just issue an etherial blanket statement like AMR did (5000 pilots in 10 years to cover attrition, etc) and then do what you want on a moth to month/year to year basis. No one will pay attention to accelerated hiring for a year or three in that scenario. Wall Street isn't tracking every class. But they could if we keep making an official BOD deal out of them all.