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FTFF
I definitely owed you one Whalesurfer.
Just read a post from Albie that at Purple 2.5 year guys are enjoying the left seat and there are now a few 5 year Captains on the MD. 10 years is the current conservative first available upgrade at Brown with 7 years being the most optimistic guess. Anybody run upgrade numbers with the dash 8 staffing factored in? And then with the staffing for the additional 14 options?
The 400 is currently staffed at 23 IPA pilots per airframe. If the -8 is staffed similarly, that's 122 new Captain positions and 322 total new pilots to account for 14 growth airframes.
Beyond that, you have block hour growth flown by existing airframes and contractual changes like OCV driving additional staffing beyond retirements and normal attrition.
To put the 2017 announced hiring of "nearly 300" into perspective, that would be equivalent of Delta hiring "nearly 1500" based on pilot group size.