You can stop playing dumb with my words. So what’s the February “Newhire” class schedules looking like? What’s the monthly attrition rate with CAs? How many CAs to FOs on the current seniority list? They upgraded every eligible FO on the entire seniority list before January correct? How many FO’s at SkyWest are meeting the minimum hours to upgrade per month?

I’d bet the answers to those questions are concerning. Anyone who thinks they’re delaying new hire class “TBT” for “upgrades” is freaking delusional.

When I was working at SkyWest they were pounding 200 initial and 200 upgrade pilots a month through training like it was nothing. You and I both know there’s no SIM availability issue for incoming new hires.