Awesome!! Hope they dont cancel any and they have at least 30 people a class!

 

Accounting for retirements so they're only hiring 1,000 for growth over 5 years?

 

At 10 pilots/plane that’s 100 new airframes......sounds like a lot of new growth over 5 years to me.

 

IAH 787...

There is no new administration, VP of FLT OPS is still the same ole ex thunderbird.

 

VP of Flt Ops is an operational position, he may be part of the "administration, but I do not consider him part of upper management He has no say on the future fleet or routes. The current management said 1-2% fleet growth thru 2020 that jibes perfectly with the 2000/3000 statement.

Look I'm not saying everything is perfect by a long shot. I'm merely pointing out we are getting exactly what management told us in terms of fleet growth and furthermore there will be no "big" fleet announcements anytime soon. To me 1-2% growth is phenomenal in an industry where growth has often led to collapse because this time the company is not out loading up on new airframes that they'd be stuck with in a downturn. Instead we have a fleet like the 767 fleet that could be parked tomorrow at very little cost. I believe slow and steady wins the race, and I am glad we are not trying to grow to 20000 pilots in 5 years.

 

Latest 8-K filed today (available here: http://ir.united.com), 4Q YOY ASMs show a growth of 7.1% at mainline and 1.7% at the regional level.

This is a good thing.

 

The 7.1% is domestic mainline ASM growth for 4th qtr year over year, international is up 1.4%. RASM also grew about the same domestically but declined internationally.
Consolidated ASM’s up 4% for the quarter is better than forecast.

 

I'm just back from DEN and saw several nervous younger people in shiny new suits. I also spoke with a Capt who is there doing interviews for the entire week.

 

Seems just like yesterday. Happy Anniversary!

 

I was there a month ago for recurrent and wanted to talk to Doris (gone now ) or anybody who could give me a little info on hiring , but it was the weekend and it was a ghost town . (Bid recurrent on purposely these days) .

Glad to hear about guys in shiny suits !