While in crew room, someone mentioned RD stated - during a ground school meeting - additional 10 A321's were acquired due to debunk oversea airline. No delivery date mentioned. Can anyone confirm?

I don't know how we would handle even more than the current order. Q4 will be interesting with 7 deliveries, lol.

I heard the same from a different source. Also I hear there is a new ftd coming and once it's online hiring will increase to 36/month. However, it sounds like training is getting backed up due to lack of check airmen so I'm not sure they could pull off increased hiring.

If true, that's great news. Depending on the delivery timeline, I have no idea how they plan to staff that kind of additional growth.

Come on twooooooo year upgrade!

The better question is which airline are these frames supposedly coming from?

Yes it's true. I can't be specific but all I will say is we are getting 20 aircraft deliveries in 2017. Yep, 20! The airline in question is Alitalia.

Hopefully the FAs are included :)

Alitalia FAs aren't what they used to be. Basically slightly sexier KLM. Very slightly.

meh........... that'l work :)