We are about a half Pilot/airframe overstaffed with the max gone. Once they slowly work their way back in the system and next summer rolls around with the shoulder flights we will be appropriately staffed to have a good mix of premium and minimizing JA’s. Just my opinion. Our goal is to have 800 airframes by end of 2020. It should have been about 20 higher, but the growth plans were stunted obviously this year. We have 250 ish firm max orders the next 5 years with 50 destinations on the radar to increase or introduce coverage. As long as the economy doesn’t tank we have some more hiring to do. They may be front loading because recruiting is scared of a “shortage” in year 4 and 5 of the next 5. The turnover at the big 3 are going to gobble up a lot of our regional hires and destination 225 isn’t going to cut it.

Just my 2 cents