Originally Posted by Aero1900

I don't know any better than anyone else, but I sure don't think we are understaffed right now. I believe a good number of guys on reserve aren't working much.



We have hired a lot of pilots and we don't have a single addition airplane yet. I think we have hired 350 pilots in the last 2.5 years and we still have 55 airplanes. Utilization has grown for sure, but I hardly think we are short staffed. I remember Biffle saying in my last recurrent that with the lull in deliveries and then the quick fleet growth, they had to choose between overstaffed pilots for a few months or risk being understaffed when the deliveries started coming fast this fall.



I wouldn't put too much thought into a few delayed classes. I've felt that we were hiring too much lately anyhow