"The shift of DCI block hours to the mainline is coming to a end this winter. With the TA it was planned to continue that migration which would have required more pilots. The Skywest E175 order is the start of managements plan B.
The good news is even without the additional block hours hiring should be strong." - Sailingfun on poolie thread

Sailingfun,

My issue is with your post on the poolie thread (pasted above). As has been pointed out, you make what appears to be a passive aggressive attempt to pin the 2016 hiring reduction on the failed TA. If you were referring to the new E190/195 airframes that the TA had in it, I don't think that fleet plan had any affect on reducing 2016 new hire numbers whatsoever. We don't have any Embraer sims on property and there was no timeline announced for fleet entry into service - that service entry could very well have been years down the road. Do you know what the service entry timeline looked like?

You guys willing to give back profit sharing and take concessions ought to donate your profit sharing to a good cause. Like the when the employees bought Delta a 767. Maybe, Ed's beachfront condo.