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You must be management and/or a pilot recruiter because your math is terrible. PSA grew from 500 pilots to 1200, that's a 700 gain. 35 planes are coming over to PSA from Envoy. That's a need of 350 pilot, so total will be close to 1500 not 2200. When you here management state 2200 pilots, you must use some common sense and realize that number makes zero sense unless a large number of additional planes come over which is not possible because American is almost scoped out on large RJs. The only way for PSA to grow further beyond 150 planes/1600 pilots, is for PSA to get planes from other non-wholly owned regionals. All those regionals have long term contracts, so one carrier would need to go bankrupt to end their contracts. How likely is that scenario?
The 2200 number and associated aircraft all come from upper management which takes that directly from AA. So. Yea. Bottom line AA likes our efficiency and profitability and will give us the planes if we can continue to staff and operate them in that manner. Where AA gets them from not our concern. FYI though, marketing and sales can make new contracts that don't affect old contracts. I would say this is just my two cents worth, however, this exact question was asked to the big cheese in my Indoc class and that is what was said.