Originally Posted by
whalesurfer
Agree. 2 or was it 3 years ago I believe they announced we’d hire 300? We ended up hiring 220 that year (per Bob T. at one of the GMM meetings).
Nice rumor though and I guess you never know..
Btw.
Just looked at the August seniority list. 2,918 on property?? That’s it?!? Wow, I thought we’d passed 3,000 with all the hiring going on?
The highest number on our seniority list I ever saw was about a year before furloughs started. It was 2,932 or ..31 maybe? So a decade later we still aren’t back to where we were back then??
What was the fleet size the year before furloughs? The 74 classic, the 727 and DC8 fleet retirements were all replaced with larger capacity aircraft with no FE’s. The ground side expanded sleeper teams considerably to deliver deferred air. I’m not disagreeing with you, just pointing out other variables that have happened the last decade.