Originally Posted by
davessn763
Not brain surgery, Hah! Tell that to the MBA’s that just closed and opened a base in in Houston or added 75 more 756 pilots without buying more planes.
How many pilots were there on the ISL? 12487 How many are there now? 12511 What’s the growth rate since the ISL? 6 pilots per year for the past 4 years or .04%. annual growth rate over the last 4 years. How do you call that growth? That my friend is as stagnant as stagnant can be.
The junior captain at the company on 1 January 2018 is the same pilot who was the junior captain 1 January 2017.
We’ve grown our mainline fleet by 24 aircraft since 2011. 4 aircraft per year, we should have grown about 300 pilots with that kind of fleet growth, but we haven’t.
Which CPO pep rally are they handing out this “we are growing” flavored kool aid? I need something to cut my pessimistic statistics with to take the edge off.
ISL was inflated because it included pilots who had retired as placeholders. It also included furloughed pilots and pilots on COLA. The actual number of active pilots was much less than the ISL. We are clearly growing since in addition to a large number of pilots returning from furloughs and LOA we have hired about 2,700 pilots post merger. Also, measuring growth based on who holds the junior Captain spot doesn’t mean anything. The bottom 787 Captains in SFO and LAX haven’t changed since 2015, but there have been hundreds of new Captains in those seats. Also, we’re talking about SFO here, and not everyone wants to live there or commute there, just like everyone didn’t want to commute or move to GUM when we had a super junior guppy Captain there years ago and the bottom Captain didn’t change, but we still had growth.