The last few posts on here regarding hiring numbers are correct.

Our long term hiring should result in around 250 pilots per year added to the seniority list. When you factor in retirements and attrition, you could probably assume we will hire 275ish? per year for the next 5+ years. Our management and training dept says we are going to run multiple classes of 48 for the next few months, so I can just about guarantee that we will stop hiring over the summer months (as we have done every summer).

The other thing that I can guarantee you is this: when we stop hiring during the summer, everyone will freak out, claim the sky is falling, and say the company is lying to us. Happens every summer. 48/ month is way beyond what we need consistently.