Originally Posted by
flysnoopy76
No way we hire 300+ over the next year, as mentioned earlier all growth is at horizon and Skywest, the number of mainline seats may increase slightly but the number of airplanes won’t in any appreciable way. Also you can bet that the second Alaska sees any drop in their projected bookings due to covid all the projected hiring will come to a quick stop.
167 this year, 340 for 2022. That’s over 500 between now and EOY 2022. Of course, Delta, Delta Plus, and Lamda variants could all ruin that. But even if we take half that (250-300) that’s still a big number for a pilot group of 2,900.