Originally Posted by
soseg
Two weeks ago flight ops said they expect to hire 1800-2000 pilots over the next decade. 700 retirements.
Now it's been revised to 1500
Sounds to me like the long term plans to expand aren't going to be as good as people had hoped.
There was 1000 new recruits planned from 2022-2027. This is to cover about 300 retirements, about 400 pilots to the A350 (expansion) and the remainder to cover extra flying or vacancies. Beyond that there’s about 550 retirements in the 5 years from 2027-2032.
So all things considered that’s roughly what I would’ve expected from a 10 year plan.
For instance there’s about 700 Captains in mainline now, after the extra flying is in the network (which is about 2027 I believe) there’ll be 900, and then all the extra vacancies which will be created by retirements which start up again from 2025 onwards.