Originally Posted by
SoFloFlyer
Im trying to understand something. Why is there aggressive hiring going on? I was under the impression that DL had hired what they needed and hiring could slow down a bit (and only hire for retirements?). What am I missing?
Two things you are missing…
1-new contract requires more pilots to do the same amount of work than previously required.
2-we have fully committed a corporate strategy of grabbing every dollar willing to be thrown our way, with a fairly alarming schedule failure rate baked in to the equation that delivers maximum revenue. Eventually we’ll be able to make good on our advertised schedules based on the hiring (I hope). But until then marketing/network/whoever has willfully out kicked the coverage.