Originally Posted by sailingfun

No idea where you get your numbers. DTW was NWA's biggest base. When we merged NWA had around 5000 pilots total at all 5 bases. Crew resources posted the growth in every base not that long ago. MSP was up about 4%. Delta had 7000 pilots for a merged list around 12000. If MSP had 3300 pilots the NWA list would have been 12,000 all by itself.

Here is a post from a NWA pilot: Here's some rough numbers of Captain Positions at each base.

ANC- 70-747
DTW- 250-A320; 160-A330; 160-744; 210-757; 150-DC9
MEM- 85- A320; 50-DC-9
MSP- 320-A320; 25-A330; 200-757; 120-DC-9
SEA- 90-A330

Looks like 665 CA's so call it 1330 total give or take a few.