Originally Posted by
atpcliff
DAL capt told me DAL hiring is bringing in more guys than they need...they are trying to get guys now that would have gone to UAL/AA. DAL's plan is to have those guys now, and keep them, which will hurt UAL/AA down the road when the shortage gets even worse.
Etc., etc., etc.
I don't buy that at all. Firt of all, DL started way late and passed on many great apps they could have gotten. Secondly, we're very short in several categories with reserves getting worn out and green slips flying all around. If what you heard was really true, we'd be fat even in the summer.
We waited as long as possible to hire and even with the hiring are barely keeping the schedule up (and even then parked 1/4 of our whale fleet in no small part due to training waterfall concerns with actually filling the vacancies that were expected before they were suddenly parked in a panic, followed by no displacements.
We're short and definately not supply side hiring just to nap the good ones.