Originally Posted by
NightIP
I also keep hearing the "They'll hire a ton of 747 FOs now so there won't be any vacancies!" rumor, which is just as baseless IMO.
May 19th class reports 747 classes on June 9 and June 30. Rumors of a July 7 class, aircraft TBD.
Even so, in a "normal" year we lose 50+ to retirements/attrition, and we all know attrition is going to spike this year.
They can delay, but probably not by much.