when are mainline gonna hire?
Maybe when every bloody S/O on the -400 is sitting right on stick limits (100hrs/30 days or 900hrs/365days). I know my 30 day total hasn't dropped below 90 for a long time now.
More requests for leave to be given back next roster, and a mate was told the other day by scheduling "if we couldn't get you to do this trip, we were in a lot of trouble".
Even the Chief Pilot said in the last newsletter that 2007 will see "hiring of flight crew for the first time in quite a while" (or words to that effect).
Fingers crossed shmoo!
TL