Originally Posted by
jsled
From December SSC (System Schedule Committee) report:
The company New Hire plan is as follows: 19 in January and 20 in February. They did not publish any numbers beyond that point because they haven’t updated their plan.
Retiring 30-40 a month, hiring 20? I'm no math person, but I'm pretty sure that's not how you go from 12.5K to 16K pilots. For the last year we have basically been hiring for attrition. Even with the couple new airplanes we have received there are exactly the same number of pilots as when I came aboard two years ago.