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Old 04-27-2018 | 04:43 PM
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John Carr
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Originally Posted by webecheck
Yep. Plus the plan is to grow to 18k pilots within the next 4 years so all those hired in the last 2 yrs will be 76 Capts by 2020 probably.
Take our current pilot count.

Scheduled 2018-2022 retirements comes to almost 1750, then toss in a wag of early out, medical, whatever.

They would need to average over 1500 hires a year to cover retirement AND growth.

Think it'll happen?
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