Originally Posted by
jtrain609
Who told you they're going to hire an additional 3,500 pilots? That'd require an additional 233 aircraft, where 95 new airframes are on order.
95 airframes at 15 pilots per airframe is 1,425 pilots.
I've been told the training center and chief pilot at recurrent INSIST on the plan to hire 3,000 in the next 5-6 years. For 95 new deliveries....
You can understand my skepticism.