Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
Your statement isn’t exactly the full truth. Those that left were not all new hires. This is pretty significant growth on the fo side and they hired almost 3x the number of fos compared to those that left. A new hire fo does the same work a 4th year fo does at less than 1/2 the cost. Don’t think they are hurting for captains. Fos are easily replaced and it shows they are doing just that.
But “easily replacing FOs” isn’t gonna cut it. It isn’t going to help accommodate all of the airplanes we are taking on and isn’t going to help increase utilization.