Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Worth noting that a lot of the LCC hiring is to replace those they lose out the revolving door to the legacies. So the total numbers needed in a given year are not quite the sum of all the majors' hiring.
Very true, but it isn’t necessary for the legacies and LCC/ULCCs to hire away all the pilots from the legacies to destroy the legacy model. If they merely hire away the junior CAs and the FOs with 750-1000 Hours of 121 time, the model collapses quite quickly.