Originally Posted by
FrancesTheMute
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?
It's about 20 per airplane. If the last one gets here by the end of 2018 then they need 380 more pilots by September of 2018. 260 of those must come this year because a pilot takes 4 months (at least) to train. So every month they shrink turns into a pretty big problem... My guess is that IF we keep shrinking that we'll have to decide in the 4th quarter which contracts get served and which don't.
If they are only going to retain 1 for ever two they hire then they need 520 this year.... But now it's the end of February so they only have 10 months to do that.