Originally Posted by
PotatoChip
No doubt SkyWest is a huge company. Maybe I’m wrong, just seemed really astounding to me. 125/month for a company with 4700 pilots. Legacies with 14,000 pilots on full tilt aren’t pushing those numbers.
Outpacing attrition by an average of 55/month is 660 additional pilots this year, bringing the total to 5360. Is there that much net growth at SkyWest?
I’m just having a hard time with the numbers. Then again, I don’t work there.
I dont know much about SkyWest but it doesn't seem unlikely to me. If you cut SkyWest numbers in half you get roughly Envoy numbers. 2400 pilots with 750ish(+900 pilots in 2017) on average since 2016.
Regional airlines have a much higher attrition rate than mainline.