The new hire numbers are official-ish, once from a reliable source (not a check airman) and now the same number has now been published on SWAPA site.

Southwest retirement "wave" starts 2023. It's not a wave like the legacies will experience but we will have a decade of elevated retirements.

I do believe that hiring numbers could be increased if the MAX comes back in a big way. Traditionally hiring numbers have been revised upwards as the year progressed. This year was a anomaly for obvious reasons.