Originally Posted by
prettywhacked
I am still thrown by the very notion of F9 offering even a meager number of leaves with full bore recruiting/hiring going on......makes you really wonder.....guess that old "measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a crayon, and cut it with an axe" fits here with regards to unrealistic (best case), grotesquely wrong (eh), or flat out deceptive growth projections is concerned. Imho, of course.......
My guess is, to cool hiring for a single slower-than-expected month, months in advance, is way beyond F9's computing power with all the variables such as attrition, lease returns, aircraft deliveries, who actually shows up for class, etc.
Conversely, betting on too many new hires and giving senior guys a voluntary month off puts somewhere around $100 in Indigo's pockets, so why wouldn't they? It's also far cheaper to pay an extra couple pilots than to cancel a bunch of flights.
Who knows what the GO is thinking. This is the only way I can make sense of it.