Originally Posted by
1stCivDivPilot
We've deferred all the transfer and new 700s for now. The last release I found said the 24 900 delivery would be complete by the end of July. I thought we got a company email saying the 900 deliveries were now going to take all year. I certainly could be wrong on that. As things stand right now we won't ever get to 150 aircraft and if our negative growth continues at its current pace, we won't be able to staff many more than the 100 we have.
I don't know if you're misunderstanding the situation or if I am misunderstanding you. There are only one set of 700s coming. There are no "new" 700s coming, only the transfers, and only 3 of them have been deferred until next year. Can that change again? Sure. But it hasn't yet and there is still time for something to happen. From what I gathered our staffing model is 10 pilots per airplane, you can do the math from there. I will agree with you that from what we know to be fact at this point, not speculation, doesn't look ideal. My 9 years in this industry have shown me nothing is certain, though, nothing. Good or bad.