Right now VX has 63 aircraft and AS has 149. VX has orders and options that would take its fleet to 103 in 2022. AS has options and orders to take it to 235 in 2021. The largest number I have heard is a 300 #, but 103+235 is 338 so that is the largest # you could see in the next 7 years. Subtract the 319s from the equation and 328 is the largest # and I am almost positive they are gone. 149 +63 = 212 so AS really has enough (235) deliveries and options to transition back to a single fleet and grow about 10% total during the next 7 years. Most people around here (AS) would not only say that this is possible, they would say it's likely the plan. Most of the pounding from the top I have heard of late is 300 jets in 2021. I think wide bodies for AS exist only in a mythical world where unicorns and lepricons live.
If you are at the bottom of the list at AS or VX you would be foolish not to apply elsewhere. You are not going to get hired and have to leave for 8-18 months best case... In that time the picture of your potential career at AS should get a lot clearer.
Last edited by Mea25000; 06-03-2016 at 09:07 AM.