Originally Posted by
stillcantfly
Well that's not all true. We didn't hire anyone from the end of 2011-2014, so 8 years isn't accurate at all if they upgrade 150 more this year it will be into the 2014 hires!
They hired through most of 2011. The last 2011 new hire is at least 150 from upgrade, then all those that by-passed (maybe another 100 at least?). Without a bunch of new planes soon the upgrade will still be 6 years going into 2017. No arguing that it will go to 2014 soon after that but now you are looking into the second half of 2017. So a one year upgrade is a huge stretch - by the time those 2014 new hires are on the line it is still a 3-4 year upgrade. To say 1 year upgrades are right around the corner is a pretty big exaggeration. If new planes are announced then that all changes but even then it won't happen overnight.