Originally Posted by
Tandem46
What math are you using??? The NET result for the past year is POSITIVE. If they hired 1000 but lost 950, that's still a NET POSITIVE gain of 50. That's all I'm saying. Yes, they need to slow/stop attrition to staff Amazon, but 2016 was still a NET POSITIVE GAIN.
I think the point is they need to hire 2 in order to net 1. So in order to staff 19 more 767's for Amazon they would need to net around 450 additional pilots from now until the end of 2018. With current attrition rates that means they need to hire between 8-900 in the next 21 months which is a tall order but not impossible. Clear as mud?