No I can't verify that because I'm not company management. Earlier in this thread there are plenty of posts that talk about missed opportunities with airlines like Biman, Qatar, Emirates (the return), and a couple of others.

And yes, they are continuing to grow. The question that we may never be able to accurately answer is what growth have they missed out on because of staffing shortages.

You may be able to point out some pilots on reserve that "sit around" (isn't that what other airline reserve pilots do at "real airlines" anyway?) but according to the recent staffing charts from JS, we staff to a level of 22 crews per 767 with 8 more 76's due to arrive this year. That's 176 new pilots needed just on the 767 side of the house. Add to that the 22 pilots that are aging out this year and we'll need 198 pilots by years end.

In the first three months this year, Atlas hired 89 pilots and lost 67 for a net gain of 22 which amounts to a retention rate of about 25%.

Maybe the exodus won't be quite so bad for the rest of the year, so let's say that Atlas retains twice the current number of new hires with a retention ratio of 50%. That means we'd need to hire nearly 400 new pilots just to staff the 8 new Amazon 767's that are coming this year. So the training department would need to hire 44 pilots a month for the last 9 months this year.

I'll leave it to you to figure out whether or not that number is feasible with our current training center capabilities.

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