Originally Posted by
hoover
I doubt that 500 at sw stays in a pool when they cancelled their classes and said no more for the rest of the yr. Plus 500 in a pool sounds very high.
500 pilots is about 40 aircraft worth. They have 342 MAX 7s on order. The original certification date of the MAX 7 buyers were told to expect was 2022. Now nobody knows.
https://simpleflying.com/faa-no-spec...r%20reductions.
I'm sure SWA would like to hire all those people if they had their promised new aircraft.