Originally Posted by
HIFLYR
Been here 26 years and they never know what the pilot hiring numbers are from year to year. It usually goes from no hiring to oh crap we need 600 in a year.
Originally Posted by
BlackKnight
This is the only true and (ironically) accurate post in this thread about hiring.
While I agree with both of these statements, it's not at all clear to me how Management gets hiring numbers so wrong over and over again?
Not enough simulators (how can that happen?), 4.a.2.b, then stop hiring, then trim the entire company costs by x%, then
HIRE, HIRE, HIRE, HIRE. We seems to go from unable to fly the known schedule due to lack of pilots to what's the most we can hire for the next 3-5 years. Who's running this "clown show"?
Aircraft orders require years of advance planning, age 65 retirements are a known, the only "unknown, unknown" is fleet growth and it seems that we might have an entire department to massage those numbers?
Would professional managers do a better job than pilots who prefer not to fly? Enquiring minds want to know?
