That's all it was......a guess......an assumption. IMO, the majority of the operational synergies of this merger have yet to occur. Pilot staffing-wise, the completion of the SLI and PBS have a high probability of producing a temporary overage of pilots resulting in a period where no pilot hiring (or flow) occurs as we balance out what appears to be a static growth timeline through the end of the legacy AA delivery schedule that goes to about 2018 IIRC. The actual percentages and/or numbers of pilots is unknown, but the 10% figure is one I've heard. I rcall recently it was projected we would lose about 300 or so "jobs" for 2015 in that figure was the number of present jobs not required (a net lose of jobs), but I don't have the exact figure stated.

It simply makes sense IMO, that substantially more jobs will not be required as a result of the integration completion and PBS and that will not result in furloughs or anything, but simply a period of stagnation to rebalance out to match future projected flying with less pilots flying the same or slightly more block hours due finally realizing those as of yet efficiencies.