Originally Posted by Slick111

So the real number is probably somewhere between my 1900 UAL new hires and your VP's number of 1100 UAL new hires over the next 1 1/2 years. Given that, I think 1500 is not an unrealistic number. I still like it.

If the big three, (UAL, DAL, and AAG) each hire 1500 over the next 1.5 years, that'll be 4500 new hires. And if Alaska, Hawaiian, UPS, FedEx, Atlas, Southern Air, and other big boys hire a combined 1500, that'll equal 6000 new hire pilots,......... or 1/3 of the TOTAL REGIONAL PILOT GROUP in the next 1.5 years. And that's not even taking into account the hiring at the middle tier airlines, i.e. JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, and Virgin or hiring at the decent-paying fractionals, (NetJets, Flex Jet, etc.).