The hours and crews - were explained clearly by Bilko during the Conair Mugabellew Townhalls in each base. He lept about with markers and flip charts.
25 more planes to come - to get to 203 Aircraft in July - so they need 1000 Captains and FOs. Now they have over 1100 fos - so they will have 25 A/C worth of extra jet jockeys in April and May. Stick on leave - makes sense - but screws the pilots.
But they need to promote 150 FOS - to cover the new 2010 aircraft + the loss of 50 FOS to other airlines + need 150 co-pilots for 30 more 2010 aircraft - that leaves 350 odd - and they have not been doing any new training and it does not look like they will have any new copilots until Xmas - so I reckon they will run out of copilots in Dec 2009.
Bye, Bye Mugabellew -