Originally Posted by
jayray2
How much more staffing do they need? They still have 300 listed on the employment page and still have more 200's and 900's coming. 15 new hires a month this year would still only be 135 pilots. It would make sense that once the economic and oil situation is worked out, hiring will continue well into next year. This is just looking at the 900's still coming (18 remaining correct??) and the 300 hundred they have listed. Even if they just hire half that amount, that it still quite a bit of hiring. And is the flow through thing still going to happen?
My guess is that we have about 90 new hires to go, almost all to the CRJ-900, after the April 7 class strictly based on getting our 49 saabs/36 900's/17 200's. (I got the numbers by taking our current staffing and using a staffing of 10 crew members per aircraft)
So, it will be more than 90 in my opinion but anything above 90 will be due to attrition so I have no basis to make a estimate on those.
Any of the more senior folks care to critique my numbers/thoughts?