Yeah..not sure now.
Will tell you this- buddy in maintenance showed me a maintenance 'plan' for next summer.. for the Widebody/International stuff, last month.

Saw that HAM was going to a 76-3, and was glad, as I think MUC is going to the 78.
Now, we find out that we are cancelling HAM!
Bummer.

While it looks great to say 'see, the spreadsheet shows growth of 44 more Airbus', the reality is- until the company announces a firm deal, it means nothing. When, and ONLY When.. the metal is sitting on the ramp, will I get truly excited.

Wasn't it a year ago that both the company and the union came out and said they were 'planning' on hiring over 1200 pilots in 2018, for a bunch of used Airbuses that were coming our way?!
(Ex Air Berlin birds that Lufty was suppose to get to keep out of the hands of EasyJet, and then they would get them to us.)


All I know is, when you look at the SLI award you see that the most junior pilot was JY at 12155.
Now the most junior pilot on the Jan Staffing is AB at 12542 (LAX 756 FO).

So, basically we have grown less than 400 pilots over 6 years?!

FS, FP & FTC
Motch