Originally Posted by
pilotgolfer
I haven't seen numbers for the number of new hires...but it seems the junior guy system wide is always around 12,500. That looks to me that hiring is just keeping up with retirement. That's just a cursory look at the numbers.
Yup.
A year ago "they" were officially saying 1000 in 2016. Obviously that didn't happen.
Hopefully the combination of consolidating the training centers and the arrival of the new 737-700s, 777-300ERs, and A350s will result in the BIG numbers we have all been waiting for.
We will see.....