Originally Posted by
TiredSoul
They increased the number of airplanes and can’t increase the crews sufficiently, that’s what’s happened.
Well 27 acft on property. 2 in LIM getting painted and one NG from Europe.
We’re somewhere in the range of over 160 pilots right now. By summer we should have about 200. Our applicant pool has gotten better since airlineapps.
They’re definitely short captains, there’s an upgrade class going on now, mostly senior FOs. Problem we’re going to meet is no feds to do obs rides with the govt shutdown. Delaying progression ability.
13 in class from January, another 10 for feb. expecting March to be about 16 pilots.