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Smooth at FL450
Yup, I picked up on those comments as well. What’ll be interesting to watch as these next few new hire classes start is whether the company can even hire as many as they want without raising our rates. If the trend from the last 2 classes continues, I don’t think we’ll need to worry about them over-hiring anytime soon.
Exactly what I was thinking. They are delusional if they think they’ll be able to hire and retain enough pilots to not have to pay premium anytime soon. It’s not 2005 anymore. Everyone is hiring and they are all hiring from the same pool of pilots. There’s no magical beans that grow some mythical pilot pool out of thin air. The reality of the pilot labor market has clearly not him them yet up at the GO.