Originally Posted by
Falcon20
Reductions in latency during taxi has reduced block hours by 5 minutes per leg. That equates to a bunch of block hours and that means less pilots needed.
Or they got ahead on hiring.
Or increased fuel costs.
Those are the rumors I’ve heard.
I think they were really building up last year anticipating the C-ser...I mean A200 coming on property a lot sooner. That delivery schedule kept getting jerked around and now that it's basically not going to enter into the fleet until the end of this year means we can afford to take a break in hiring. I'd bet that if the A200s had started coming this spring then hiring maybe still would have slowed down a tad, but not stopped completely.