Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
they took an hours cut but in exchange were pay protected to whatever pay they had pre COVID. And with CARES those cuts lasted 1 bid month.
we probably could have reached a better deal but the company was dead-set against several deals (because “optics”) and many in our ranks were incredible vocal NO to anything. I’m honestly amazed we got as far as we did.
With that said I think it will be years before we are caught up on hiring. I keep hearing we want to be back to 100% 2019 numbers by XX date. As of right now we need to hire ~2,100 pilots to get back to our April 2020 seniority list headcount and that number grows every month.
If we want to be 100% 2019 numbers in summer 2023, we will need to hire ~3,000 pilots between now and then (on top of training all UNAs)
3,000 in 24 months isn’t impossible. Before COVID I think we were gearing up for something like 1,200. Some judicial use of off site sims makes it within touching distance. Throw in likely a few extra sims and FTDs and I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility. Nice seniority boost for the guys at the bottom who had a rough last year.