Originally Posted by strfyr51

at a town hall meeting it was implied that they had "Plenty" of pilots to staff all the future flying on the horizon including whether they bring the 5 747's out of the desert and IPTE modify them which hasn't been determined yet. My question is will 5 747's, 12 737's and 4 777's on order eat up 1400 pilots?? The impression was that even if they accelerate the 787 order (UAL) they Seill won't need to hire Pilots?? How much do they think they'll be pushing the Hours per month 90-95hrs?? And is this a realisitc number??
I can tell you this. We DON'T have the ground support people to du anywhere Near what they were claiming we Could so and I didn't even KNOW the Pilots were embracing "LEAN" Strategies. BTW, How WOULD a Flight crew be LEAN anyway??