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12-10-2018, 09:10 AM
#7431
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Originally Posted by BeatNavy
We didn’t have that many deliveries for 2018...think there’s a couple CEOs remaining to be delivered (planned for 2018 so presumably this month?). Next year planned deliveries are only 13 NEOs (starting in April I believe?), and with the way the Pratts are going right now I’d be surprised if we took all 13. But with 350 planned hires next year, and 13 deliveries (at ~15 pilots per plane), that leaves about 150 (minus attrition) more pilots than deliveries necessitates. With the remainder of the contract being implemented next year, and the new vacation, I wouldn’t dismiss them trying to get a little fatter on staffing, at least until they can figure out how efficient they can make the operation with the new equilibrium of the new pairings/new vacation/premium open time/other factors. They’ll also need to get a little fatter for all the training events, the addition of the 220 cadre, etc. This is about what I expected, and I expect maybe a couple more supp bids or potentially larger system bids moving forward as they figure out the training constraints (e190 specifically). I don’t think we have the ability to hire much more until that is figured out.
This bid should have had enough captain upgrades to staff the remainder of 2018 deliveries and a good bit of the 13 Airbus deliveries for next year, unless they know they aren't taking all 13 airbuses next year...
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