Originally Posted by
CALFO
787 and 777. As pilots retire off of those planes, someone has to take their place. The 787 will increase its captain staffing by at least 100 in the next two years while at the same time having retirements. Lots of 777 captain retirement, which will be filled with both ual and cal pilots.
And 747s. Those guys are retiring as well. We aren't parking them until beginning in 2022 and that's a decent sized airplane fleet, (it was larger than the pre-merger CAL 777 fleet.)
I think the 787 is going to be the big growth fleet, since we have 65 total orders and only about 16 on the property now.
If we don't park any widebodies early, the entire 747, 777, 787, A-350 fleet will be about 200 airplanes by 2020. I'm sure some older 777s will get parked though.
Anything can happen.