Originally Posted by
Zoomie
Great website. I've never seen it before and don't know how accurate the numbers are...but if it's accurate, it proves my point.
Look at UAL numbers vs SWA, AA, and DL.
We are lagging significantly. Just because things are "better than they have been in quite some time" doesn't mean we are keeping up with our competition.
I will state again that I am very happy with this bid.
I would like to see the trend turn into what SWA, DL, and now AA is seeing this year. I had no idea AA was eating our lunch too in regards to hiring numbers.
Things are good, but relative to the top competition, we have a long way to go. We need to pick up the pace and start growing, and not regionally.
Delta hasn’t hired since June and will have one class next week. We took only 2 months off. That information is through October, so counting in 4 classes in Nov/Dec at about 40 per, that gives us 600 new hires on the year plus furlough returns. Delta has hired 532 and runs classes about 30-45 iirc, so they’ll end up with about 570 this year plus no returns.