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08-19-2019, 11:51 AM

#11

sailingfun

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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

I can't see how the training department can handle that many new hires in addition to recurrent and transition training.

They have done it before. They strangely enough have a plan in place and the simulator capacity locked down.

08-19-2019, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

I can't see how the training department can handle that many new hires in addition to recurrent and transition training.

1126 started indoc in 2016 and 1092 in 2017. Yes, not all those people started aircraft training in their respective years but it’s easy to say 1000 or something very close to that is certainly possible.

GP

08-19-2019, 12:11 PM

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2StgTurbine

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Originally Posted by GuardPolice

And how many bases/categories (MD88 and 7ER) were closing/shrinking, how many new aircraft were coming (A220, A330NEO, A321NEO) in those years?

There are some major changes in our fleet makeup and network that I think will cause lots of people to change aircraft more so than 2016 and 2017.

08-19-2019, 12:14 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

And how many bases/categories (MD88 and LAX717) were closing, how many new aircraft were coming (A220 and A330NEO) in those years?

There are some major changes in our fleet makeup and network that I think will cause lots of people to change aircraft more so than 2016 and 2017.

Don't worry, the optimizer and our JV partners are working hard to mitigate this issue.

08-19-2019, 12:14 PM

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And Delta has added sims and gone from six periods a day to seven.

And most of all, they don't care what I think. So I don't worry about it

08-19-2019, 12:31 PM

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DWC CAP10 USAF

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Originally Posted by Sputnik

And Delta has added sims and gone from six periods a day to seven.

And most of all, they don't care what I think. So I don't worry about it

They went from 5 to 6.

08-19-2019, 12:50 PM

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GuardPolice

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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

There are some major changes in our fleet makeup and network that I think will cause lots of people to change aircraft more so than 2016 and 2017.

Without a doubt 2020 will not 100% be the same as those previous years. The company can't hide from the present reality that is the growing number of retirements annually for the next 5 years or so. Let's hope they are preparing well enough or we will be seeing GS mania for a long time coming.

08-19-2019, 01:27 PM

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Sputnik

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They went from 5 to 6.

Damn I suck at math. Or alphabet.

But hey, it's a greater percentage increase, right?

08-19-2019, 02:25 PM

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846 new WB captains in next two years (by 2021)? I really don’t think so. We only have 953 total WB captains now.

08-19-2019, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Denny Crane

I do believe you are correct and, IMO, it will continue for quite a few years.

Denny

Any bets on how many GS records are set and then freshly broken while all the hiring goes on? The company seems to have a high pain threshold WRT GS costs versus bringing in cheap newhires to stack reserve lists.