Originally Posted by
Sputnik
Here's a naive question, I was looking at the APC mandatory retirement numbers, they don't go over 200/year till 2016. Assuming those numbers are accurate (?), why is Delta hiring so much right now? And why the confidence they'll keep hiring 500/year forever?
Is there a lot of expansion going on?
Those are mandatory retirements. Actual retirements are higher as well as the mainline list growing with the 717 deliveries.