Originally Posted by
John Carr
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?
It’s a swa vs ual thread. We’re supposed to throw out koolaid material that trumps other airlines.
I do think it’s possible to add 1500/yr, and I think in the next 12 months we’ll see a run rate pretty close to that. Sustaining it for 4-5 years, idk, and would bet against if I had to choose. It's possible capacity wise, but I don’t think we’ll have a fleet that needs that many pilots.