Ok looks like the “growth” crowd is starting to see we are not growing the pilot group but becoming more efficient through attrition, that I agree with.

True growth, IMHO, is growth in ASM’s. ASM’s generate block hours, block hours generate pilot positions. Looking at the last 10-Q we grew mainline ASM’s about 4% year to date, mostly domestic. Not horrible but definitely not in line with the kool aid offered this year by our fearless leaders. If we were growing the pilot group by 4% we should have seen the seniority list grow by 500 pilots, but we didn’t.

I think we are going to have to wait until 2019 to see kool aid level of growth. Lots of narrowbody deliveries and increasing retirements. Let’s just hope the company doesn’t park older narrow-bodies, again.

And whoever said almost half the pilots are about to be post merger hires, PUT DOWN THE PITCHER OF KOOL AID!

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