Originally Posted by
veewan
Has anyone actually asked a recruiter how many pilots we need vs how many they are actually getting to show up and interview?
It's one thing for the company to say we are turning pilots away (to keep quality up), its another if we're hiring everyone that just shows up.
We aren't hiring everybody who shows up. Go talk to a chief or a recruiter. They've been quite selective.
And we're very fat on FO's, they haven't slowed upgrades out of concern about FO's or anything. FO's aren't anywhere close to 95 hours, which would have to happen (95 hrs, less reserves, etc) before they would even consider something like that, which would create a death spiral anyway.
I don't think things are that bad, classes are still half full, they'll figure out they need to pay more money and when they do that we'll get the full classes again.