Originally Posted by
JungleJetBoss
From multiple sources
Lots of new destinations in the future. (Some which may surprise you)
The number of 170s to be acquired is planned and therefore can’t be made public until Dougweiser’s money men give the green light.
As far as increasing fleet numbers, I wouldn’t count on it.
My opinion is they’ll do a one for one swap with the existing fleet of 140/145s
Recruiting is so far behind that it’ll be a miracle to keep cheeks in the seats of what we have numbers wise now.
Expect attrition to increase which will only exacerbate the staffing situation.
Looks like the company at least recognized retention and staffing are becoming an issue but once again offered a short term solution instead of following through with meaningful changes. Those changes were pounced on by the union and even though they “accepted pilot input” they were adopted without a vote. At least this is only giving six months. Hopefully by then things will be worse giving another chance for long term improvements. Unfortunately one downside of attrition out pacing training ability will mean a shrinking pilot group which will stifle flow with the “equation”.