Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
My reasoning being under a jcba with competitive pay and benefits more routes and more planes we will rival legacies and therefore attrition at both companies should slow. Since both companies have such a young pilot group retirements will have an affect on upgrades. Right now both companies have reasonable upgrade time because of growth in operations and attrition.
I could be very wrong but those were my reasons. I see a relative slow down in growth post merger and integration. I also see a decrease in attrition and even with moderate growth I see a higher average utilization/efficient use of the pilot group decreasing the need for upgrades
Higher average utilization also affects need for CAs. And every additional aircraft on the line increases the need for CA authorizations by six or seven. Both airlines have a lot of aircraft on order and except for the older 319s, I don’t see many NK aircraft being retired after merger. But yeah, at steady state every new Ca will require an old one to die, quit, or retire. No airline is very close to steady state right now though.