SEP 5 (38 Pilots)
NOV 7 (44 Pilots)
NOV 28 (44 Pilots)

No October or December classes.

How many total pilots for the year?

I saw a hotline or email or something last month that said we'd hired 500+ so far (can't remember the exact number or where I read it). So I'm thinking maybe 650 to 675 will be the total this year. Pretty low...

523 through mid August.

Don't know if that included the second class in August.

Additional 126 in the classes list above.

649. Slightly more if the second August class was after 8/17?

The retirements should really start to kick in. We should have hired a thousand this year

We are on pace for 468 this year. That is about 10% above the mandatory Age 65 number.

Thanks slice. I was curious about that. Can we pump 1000 new hires/yr through with current pilot transition/upgrade training though?

I see 523 hired as of 8/18/2017 according to Dave Tatum. He is Director Pilot Recruiting. It should be Close to 700 for the year. It also said increase for next year. Sounds like it is backed up a bit. If they slow down they are crazy. We just retired 34 last month. We peak in 2022 at one every 9 and a half hours. Good movement at junior bases. Dallas and Chicago still tough to get to. I can hold Captain on the 767 in a couple bases and last time I checked I couldn't hold a line as a First Officer on 787 or 777 in DFW.

Just checked. I can hold a line 787in ORD and DFW. Barely. PHL 767 Ca is the Junior base. They are adding flying there too. I am not sure if it will be flown by PHL based pilots. ZRH, BUD and PRG all new to PHL and I think it is to be flown by 767.

Somewhere posted that it will be flown by PHL based pilots.