We don’t need new hires for a while considering the number of displaced pilots coming off the Airbus. The Airbus retirements will far outpace boeing deliveries, the new boeing upgrades in the 4-5 year range are history, they’ll finish training just in time to downgrade.
in the recent recording of the chief pilot call, the DO while still saying the sfo boeing base was still planned it sounded like it there’s a good chance it won’t be on the next bid.