Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Bingo, you have kind of made my whole point about hiring. The hiring will be driven by block hours. Unless fuel goes up and the block hour plan drops we will hire in the fall.
One thing to keep in mind, unassigned pilots can be created and then junior manned into a new category in the same bid. It would mean in this case the company would have to not award most of the posted AE’s.
Help me with the math on hiring. We are overmanned in the two busiest months such that reserves are sitting around and company is offering SILs. I’m thinking we will be even more over manned once summer peak ends. Only issue will be summer of 19, and how many more will we need then vs this summer?
I saw about 175 retirements this year, didn’t add up numbers first six months of 19.
I’m not seeing any need for hiring in the fall, more like Jan to meet next summer requirements plus retirements.
Not saying you’re wrong, just not understanding