Originally Posted by
flyguy81
Hahaha. Retirements will start to peak at the legacies way before then. If we want to maintain our size or grow we’ll need butts in the seats and a way to attract them given our lack of widebody aircraft and faster upgrade. Stalling isn’t in managements best interest, IMO. Especially if the others sign significant gains and move the bar that much further.
Don’t you think that’s a big reason why we are overstaffed now? Get ahead of the legacy retirements and weather pronlonged contract negotiations? Bulk of the new hires have been hired 2015-2018. They are starting to throttle back on hiring. Come 2020 all will be off probation and unlikely to leave even if negotiations get nasty. Better sit back and plan on not seeing a new contract until 2025. I can wait.