Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Yeah, with the current sad state of hiring at F9, B6, and WN ( and the less said about NK who is continuing to furlough the better), you are really looking at the legacies for hiring. And if DL is only going to flow 60 a year from Endeavor, it might be quite a wait:
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From now on, anyone that trys to tell me hiring is "normal", I'm going to show them this chart. At the going rate it seems like we
just might bridge 4000 hires this year, which is the lowest number since
2016. The only reason there's even that many is because of the mind-boggling amount of hiring coming from 3 airlines. You have to go all the way back to 2013 to see the same amount of zeros on the chart.
And before some lost-decade'r comes at me with "look at what it was in '08"; yeah man, I know. It was terrible then. But it isn't like people are hyper fixating on 2023 and wondering why they haven't been hired at that pace. This year will likely be the worst year in 10 years.
Of course, all of that said leaves out 2020. Obviously hiring wasn't great then.