I asked the chief pilot in recurrent ground school yesterday and he said we staff at about 10 pilots per plane.

8 aircraft were already supposed to leave and were in the plan already.

so we are only giving back 6 unanticipated aircraft at 10 pilots per plane is only 60 pilots.

we are currently having about 30 pilots a month leave so theoretically attrition should take care of it in about 2 months.