Originally Posted by
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I can't speak to the last 12 months but there are roughly 170 widebody A's retiring in the next 12 months. That's not counting 7er guys/gals. There are 109 7ER A's in the next 12 months. In that time there are 5-600 retirements total. Also, there are a lot of people retiring that are out sick, so they don't really have to replace them in a category.
Keep in mind that retirements for a entire year were accounted for in the 12 months following the big bid closing. They also applied a unplanned attrition factor to those retirements.