Originally Posted by KC135

Look at the facts, we have lost 69 pilots since the beginning of the year and hired 118. This nets +49 on the list and the number of classes have just increased to 2 per month for most months going forward so growth will be increasing assuming new hires keep showing up. If you do the math that attrition cost roughly 12 million a year to replace @ 70k a training cycle (2 per CA leaving). Guess what a 40% or 50% raise raise with a new contract would cost vs replacing attrition? It's significantly more, a conservative estimate would be 7 times more while factoring in lost revenue from cancelled flights (which will subside).