As retirements increase, training and OEs will be rampant in all categories. ALL of them. IT may have a larger affect right now on new hire categories, and will probably always affect those categories to a greater degree. Going forward, especially past 2018 it will spread to all categories, and it will stay that way for some time.
I'm sure that's why it was on the companies hit list.
I can tell you that our current system is one of the best if not the best I've heard of. I can also tell you that if this stays in the TA as it is, it becomes one of the worst.
Far worse than AA's. The slide that the MEC put up saying that 100% of their LCA trips are pulled is patently FALSE.