Originally Posted by
Tenacvols
Your math is missing the 80 parked airplanes. (110x12.5 is 1375 plus 100 retirements, minus 500 EXTOs is 975…)
Lets say we grow by 30 airplanes. Then we would have 760 by the end of next year.
760 x 12.5 = 9,500 pilots required. Assuming we have about 9,000 on the seniority list right now we could be hiring 600 (500 plus 100 retirements).
We shall see.