Originally Posted by
MD-11Loader
This is excellent news. Hopefully these airframes are the ones that are being taken back and brought out of storage. Growth is good.
Growth is bad for flow. Shrinkage is good when you are flowing. If Envoy is flowing 300+ next year, and losing 200 to outside attrition, that will only work if you can get 25 new hires per class.
It is better to be shrinking, that way you don't need to be restricted in the flow if you are not able to hire as many as you need. Instead of needing 25 per class, you only need 15.