Originally Posted by PilotJ3

I believe Ric numbers were based on 400 new hires next year and 200 flow. Now...

Looks like we might send almost double the number, so I expect they want to upgrade more than 200 next year. It all depends how many new hires we can get.

I can see AAG hurting some smaller carriers not renewing or reducing flying for them (AWAC, RAH, TSA comes to mind), so the pilots go to one of the WO. That was demonstrated when he reduced envoy flying, pilots jumped ship to PSA. We also saw when AMR announced e-175 to RAH, how many pilots left to go there?

It's being proved that pilots are their own enemies just following upgrades and movement.

Next year will be interesting, specially when the 175 comes online.