Originally Posted by
Treehorn
Fair enough.
Slight change of subject. Why are they only hiring 350 in 2017? Are they mental or is that full capacity?
It's tough to say what they'll hire. They need 500 more pilots just for the Amazon contract. Allegedly UPS has called our management and told them that they'll be taking 120-150 of our pilots next year as a courtesy. If that's true we'll easily lose 200 to attrition next year plus 50 or so retirements. We may need 750 pilots next year. I don't know what management's plans to train all that are... I do know that 350 sounds like a recipe to have a massive shortage next fall.