Originally Posted by
ASpilot0936
The way this reads below implies that 1500-1600 pilots total will be needed this fall. If your other numbers are good, then that's better than I personally expected.
Yes that’s all that’s needed, but you can’t go from 3100 to 1500 to 2700 or whatever it is in a 12 month timeframe due to training time. Same reason delta has 7,000 more pilots than they need this fall. They won’t furlough near that many because they can’t. Ramp down and ramp up to that degree is impossible. If training for a new seat/requal was 1 week long for everyone, then yeah you’d prob see 50% of the lists furloughed until demand comes back. But training requirements prevent that.