Originally Posted by REF 5

Believe it or not, airplanes don’t drive hiring. CBA limits how many work days are built into the lines. That’s the main driver. Number two is max block hours that allowed to be built into the lines. Those two drive hiring. SWA of the old used have a pure am/pm duty day for the airplane. SWA of today has way too many airplanes that run beyond the duty limitations of 117(red eyes, trans con, etc). You can have one airplane have four crews in 24hr period just due to the stage length. Netting airplanes definitely helps though. Delivery of 66 and retiring of 60 in 2026. That excludes the Max7. Rumor is 4 deliveries slated in DEC for the Max 7 is in Boeings delivery schedule. Another rumor is Boeing has made a sweet deal to SWA to take all those parked Max 7’s. I think 26 are built. Initially, SWA said no but Boeing made a deal they couldn’t refuse.