Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Rumor of 3,100 pilots to be hired over the next 5 years. *IF* true, obviously a good time to be hired.
But, that is rumour (JB CEO is British) only, and there is no public plan for the airline that would justify that much hiring.
To answer your question, none of us really know until our retirement day if we made the right decision as this industry changes soo fast.
Even if JB keeps all 60 E190s, JB has only a fixed number of planes on order and can’t get any/many more delivery slots in the next 5 years. 60+85=145 new planes with 60 planned 190 returns/sales/retirements. Let’s assume those 60 stay for the sake of mathing this out. 145*16 pilots per plane=2,320. Plus another couple hundred for CBA staffing. Call it 2500 needed on the list. Unless somehow they crap out a bunch of additional planes, and attrition picks up, would there be any reason to hire 3100? I would say 1400 added to the list in 5 years is more realistic with what is known today and doable, so maybe hiring 2,000 over 5 years to account for attrition.