Originally Posted by
Chimpy
So with this recent Vacancy Bid, what "appears" to be the hiring goal as of now for 2026? closer to 1,000? or closer to 2,000?
There is no way to tell. The company could put a vacancy bid out to get 10,000 open spots for new hires and then cancel all classes and not hire anyone if that’s what the company wants or needs.
If you want to project approximate hiring numbers look at aircraft delivered - aircraft retired, multiplied by pilots per aircraft, + retirements. Even then we can retire aircraft to shrink to an appropriate size depending on how the economy goes.