Originally Posted by
Hedley
The company advertised a large and significant fall bid. 247 CA and 580 FO vacancies definitely meets that definition. I’d argue that we are the ones who hyped this into being a huge bid. Oh how times have changed now that 3 year upgrades is considered slow.
Yeah we are of course our own worst enemies, no question.
I think people who were disappointed on here were leaning into the whole "biggest captain upgrade for a year" thing and imagining more CA slots. I don't think this is unreasonable given the publicly stated goals of 2000+ new hires in 2026. Clearly 247 CA vacancies doesn't make a ton of sense if we are doing 500 new hires or so before year end and another 2000 next year.
It was the lack of slots compared to expected based on the huge numbers put forward by the company.