Originally Posted by 3inthegreen

I will inform you. PSA has currently 86 aircraft with 24 more 900 options and another 38 Envoy CRJs left to transfer. In the end that will give you a fleet count of 148 aircraft. You already have 86 of them, you still have 62 more to go. And that's IF you still get ALL of envoys CRJS. Aspen plus your ability to staff all that flying will be the deciding factor. But let's say you do. A total fleet count of 148 and staffing of 11 pilots per aircraft gives you a total need for 1628 active line pilots. Call it 1800 to have 150 work in the training/recruiting/company. You guys currently have close to 1200 active pilots. You need another 600. Anyone coming through the door today at PSA is going to be in the bottom 33% of the seniority list. That means you are hiring long term FOs at this point. With no flow, and an interview of 4 a month, which I hear last month didn't go well for 2 individuals interviewing, then that means there is going to be a very long upgrade for anyone coming through the door once this place stagnates and settles down with its final pilot count. And even if you are loosing 10 Captains a month to the majors, you are still looking at a 3 plus year upgrade for anyone hired today. I mean with your training center, it will take 7 or 8 months just to get through IOE. And then with SAP not working out like it should, being a bottom FO on reserve not flying much, it might take 3 years just to get the 1000 SIC from date of hire.