Originally Posted by
Hello123
Is there a future in mainline short haul? Qantas currently has 75 737s that are being replaced by a confirmed 20 A320s. With the current recruitment taking pilots direct to the 737 what will happen to the excess short haul pilots as the 737 fleet is reduced?
QF is currently hiring 1500 pilots over 10 years. Take out the amount of projected retirements and expansion of LH flying with the Sunrise aircraft and that stills leaves several hundred excess pilots, so they aren’t going to remove 70% of SH flying out of the system.
There’s 134 combined narrowbody replacements and terminals aren’t big enough for them to be all A220s so I expect more 321XLRs to be ordered in future years to cope with this.