Originally Posted by
Machspeed
Everything changes here! Example, EK stated in Gulf News that they will continue the expansion of the past into the future. Quoted saying they will be at 15 US destinations in the next 3 years.
Well, it's not the number of destinations that decide how many pilots you need but it's the number of aircraft you have, and that's quite easy to predict.(I agree ULRs need more pilots). Unless you start to dry lease a lot, deliveries are pretty fixed, you don't just rock up a 777 like that.