Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
January '17 hires on both the 900 and 200.
On the plus side, it's the largest number of upgrades since the middle of 2018.
It’s definitely good that 19-05 has a large number of upgrades, vs mostly CA base switching like we have seen on all of the vacancies for the last year or so. I’m guessing the growth that has been announced so far, coupled with (hopefully) high continued attrition on the CA side, will be enough to upgrade most of the pilots who were hired in the first 4 or 5 months of 2017. I think it will take about 3 more vacancies to bring staffing all the way up to where it needs to be to fully staff the growth. That would mean a March 2020 vacancy would account for the current growth and beyond that it would just be upgrading for attrition.
There are still a lot of pilots on the list who were hired in the summer of 2017 and I think it’s either going to take another growth announcement or some serious attrition to get those pilots into the left seat.