Originally Posted by bored

If you do the numbers and with 117 eventual planes, we'll need roughly 1,170 - call it 1,200 pilots. We're at 1,145 on our last seniority list, so the numbers aren't adding up. With PBS coming next year we'll also need less pilots, even further skewing the numbers. They're either planning on being really overstaffed or we're getting more airplanes beyond the 117.