Originally Posted by Bluewaffle

Just Curious, what was your corporate analysis for the 2017 year? 2016? Did you just come up with this because you saw a leaked memo from our Director of pilot hiring? Going from 500 pilots hired this year to 700 next year is a big push? Im just not following your logic at all. The investor briefings that you're referring to do not indicate a big push in hiring at all. They indicated desire for increased productivity, not only from the aircraft utilization but from the pilots themselves. They want to grow the airline while hiring as little as possible. We have no idea how many future orders are growth aircraft or replacement aircraft. Right now, save for Dulles, we don't have the gate space to park a bunch of growth aircraft. I see this Airline hovering around 12,700 pilots for the foreseeable future.