Originally Posted by
horrido27
From a thread last month-
Rumor: UA looking to add 60 RJs
Take note, we have NOT hired 2700.
Again, it's pretty easy. Take a look at who was on the bottom of the ISL award-
Yost, number 12155
For Jan 2018.. he shows up as 10208 (out on Mil Leave.. stay safe!)
ATK, is the bottom pilot - 12496.
Difference of 2288. Throw in the fact that some of those 2288 were hired under the Continental side post merger but not part of the ISL.
No matter which way you look at it, our pilot group has actually only expanded by less than 400 pilots since the ISL/Merger.
Better than shrinking or staying the same.. but not crazy growth.
I'll stick with my bet!
Motch
You just proved my point. 2288 pilots hired post-merger. Meaning post-merger. PLUS all the U-hires AND the returning furloughees.
I get your point. You are saying that we had 12,500 or whatever pilots on the SLI list, but that included HUNDREDS of pilots on COLAs and furloughed from both legacies. It also included pilots who HAD ALREADY RETIRED. So, in effect, we really only had about 11,000 ACTIVE pilots when the merger happened in 2010. So “POST MERGER” we have grown EASILY by 1,500 pilots net plus we’ve replaced all the retirees.
I think its funny that we made a point during our SLI to say those pilots weren’t active, and that should drive their placement, now we reference their placement on the list (as inactive pilots) somehow providing we haven’t grown.