Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Those growth numbers with compounding will require about 18% more pilots in the next 4 years if it’s airframes and block hours. That’s 2700 pilots on top of retirements. I suspect they were talking ASM growth. With the fleet upsizing going on that requires far fewer pilots.
I'm not sure if I was clear, but the growth I was posting about was airframe growth. It was laid out on a slide that had aircraft orders and breakdown of numbers of each fleet per year. The percentages weren't my estimation, it was straight from the powerpoint slide.