Originally Posted by
TimetoClimb
The company learned its lesson after it went bananas with the new hire and probationary awards to CA only for deliveries to grind to a halt. Now they are taking a cautious approach. I think with retirements and deliveries now, these two vacancies will be wholly inadequate in 6 months time. The problem with ORD is it’s shifting to 320 flying, so the 737 may stagnate for a bit. My best guess
It’s been more 320 lately in ORD but we’d need 100 more 320 captains to get close to 737 CA numbers. Hope it’s the case but I think unlikely. I doubt we see much if any 737 CA till fall 26 in ORD, construction is choking it. Some backfills and they’ll go senior. There’s quite a few WB FOs that want to do that (junior ones) but can’t