Originally Posted by
CaptCoolHand
The last few years they expected to lose around 120/yr. we only lost about 75/yr. departures have picked up a bit the first quarter this year losing about 40 sinse the new year. As of about a week ago hiring was expected to be around 175 for the year revisable if needed.
... They'll end up playing catch up when we're running hot this summer.
Exactly my point. We've lost 40 and hired 64. It takes 3 months to hire 24 pilots? If anyone from ELT is telling you that attrition is down for the year that is just false. ALPA has not said this either....only the opposite.