Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
I’d be curious to know other airlines numbers too. I think the corner of the industry were in being ulcc and lcc it’s somewhat common. We’re not a regional and not going to lose everyone to mainline or another major. But some still use this, especially early in their career, as a stepping stone to get to a legacy or cargo. The legacy hiring has definitely increased attrition though. But again they didn’t hire 800 people and 400 of them left. Most of the people leaving are senior FOs and junior captains. Those 800 hired will replace most of the 400 that left and then grow the fo side. If they need more captains they can lower the minimums and have plenty of people eligible to upgrade.
We dont get official numbers from Union at F9 but some of us have loosely tracked them. Generally we lost about 30 per month at the beginning of 2022 but that number seems to have slowed to somewhere around 15 per month since they first year pay raise went into effect. Again, nothing official.