Emirates Group plans to add 11,000 new staff in the coming year across its businesses including the airline...The company includes the air services provider dnata and its fast-growing carrier...Emirates said that the new recruits will increase its head count by 6 per cent by March 2016....About half of the new hires will be Dubai-based cabin crew for the airline, Emirates said.
Rascott,
My reading of the article is recruitment of about 5,500 cabin crew between now and March 2016, with the rest of the staff going in to other roles within the airline, or in to other Group related business units. That seems more in line with the calculated expectations, but I agree it does not make significant allowance for the current rates of attrition.
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