True, but that was before the 747 fleet parking, so we went down on active numbers from then and are now on our way back up.

If you look at the minimum number that Manpower Planning wanted on the Vacancy 18-04 Min-Max document you see 10581. On the Vacancy that just closed (19-04 One year later) Min-Max you see 11021. That shows that Manpower Planning sees a need for an additional 440 pilots from a year ago.

More importantly the difference between minimum and actual is now very close (87 vs 460), so they don't have pilots in places they don't want like they used to. That means that now the increased need for pilots doesn't get filled by moving the excess from elsewhere, but gets filled by new hires.

Don't take this the wrong way, I would definitely want more and more pilots, but at least the data from Manpower now shows that we actually need more pilots. Since their view is much more important than mine, I am glad to see that even their stuff shows the need for more pilots.