Originally Posted by
TallFlyer
Here's the bottom line: if we can staff them, the airplanes will come over. AAG is not going to maintain the infrastructure for a 35 aircraft fleet at another carrier when it already has 115 of the same type at another WO carrier.
So then the real question is can we staff them? Hiring is up, and I have a good source that says they're ramping up for larger upgrade classes early next year.
And all any of us in the peanut gallery can do is wait.
You do realize that the mere existence of an upgrade bid is not proof that the staffing size is increasing.
The more I hear it, the more this pitch sounds the same as Piedmont's. Everyone is saying, "Trust
US, the pilots are coming
HERE." When in reality neither one has anything more than hopes and dreams that they will grow to the projected size.
For years regionals have said, "We're going to hire 600 this year!". And recently they have consistently been falling short. You say you're hiring tons, but now the cat is out of the bag with that new thread that was just started in the regional forum. All of the new hire numbers are now available to anyone who bothers to look at the graphs. The charade is up.