Originally Posted by
planejoe
Flight Ops update states we are done with classes/hiring in 2025 and plan to only hire for attrition in 2026 (which they stated may change but that's the current plan).
Classes to resume in "first half of 2026". 2026 retirements per ALPA are 506.
FWIW, from the time we stopped classes in May 2025 to the end of 2026, there will be about 800 retirements. I submit 800 would be consistent with what was published today. Anything less than that would actually be shrinkage.
Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
Did you read the same memo I did? Idk how you extrapolate 1,500 from we plan to hire for retirements and planned attrition.
We did all our hiring for 2025 in Q1, seems like that is the plan again next year.
As someone reminded me recently, though the last 'hire date" was in March, they were 9E flows that were held back, and actually completed indoc in May. So 5-ish months of hiring.