Originally Posted by
450knotOffice
1800 pilots on furlough, yes. However, a very high percentage of the remaining pilots on furlough are likely to defer or never come back. AA has had to call a large number of furloughs to fill the June classes.
That is not really the case. I believe they only had to call around 20 people to fill the first June recall class. The good news is that there will be two classes in July as well. They expect to have a total of 25 between the two July classes.