The average (mean) attrition for January-May was 14.6

Every month 13-17 pilots left. June was a big increase to 27 and July is already indicating 13 but there are likely many more considering what I am hearing on the line. I think the significance is what is being debated here and why you saw a negative reaction to your question from one of our more, outspoken members. It was pretty much cannon that it would take a lot of pilots leaving to change the terrible position for pilots here at AS. This is apparently no longer the case as classes are being overbooked by 20% and attrition is increasing rapidly yet management is not doing anything meaningful to help the pilot group out. In fact they are just going to hire through the attrition and telling us that staffing is fine. I think this is where a lot of the debate around leverage and attrition comes from.

There is positive news coming from our negotiation committee. However, this could just be a fake moment of goodwill as a stalling tactic to keep things going through the summer.