Originally Posted by sailingfun

I posted one simple statement that this is the first time the company has mentioned a west coast 717 base. Nothing more or less. I personally have seen no talk about building up the west coast bases since the merger with the exception of the 767 base in SEA. I have seen discussion of increased flying but that does not go hand and hand with pilot basing. Prior company statements in fact indicated no new basing in the west.
SEA has however seen one of the largest percentage increases in pilot manning of any base since the merger so all is not bad.
In addition system wide the growth component in contract 2012 was projected to produce about 1100 new pilot jobs (excluding retirements and other attrition). It now appears we will handily beat that number!