Originally Posted by 82spukram

There are plans for 20 more airframes on property by year end. My understanding is (reference 14Q4 conference call) that they are planning to grow by same percentage as the economy. So roughly 2%. So just to grow that amount plus retirements plus the shift from small regional jets to larger ones and Taking the larger regional jets route and putting those onto mailine it comes out to ~900 per year by the follow cave man math:
~400 retirements
~300 for growth
~200 medical/mil/early outs
The Airbus fleet has been under utilized last few years because of mods (wifi,slim line, mx) so some of the growth is airframes utilization.

On a side note the airline doesn't really have to grow for us to see an uptick in hiring. "Upgauging" the airframes will push more flying onto property.

At any rate as a realrivitly jr pilot I hope for 2-3 years of this type of hiring.