@Metro 301. Papers Are not alaways in touch with real world. Some assumptions ,even though in aviation assumptions must be avoided.
lets say that SVA wants to add 50 aircrafts to its fleet.
1) HR can not facilitate the amount of pilots required to operate these aircarfts.they work very hard but its quite unrealistic to hire more than 250 pilots per year(minus the attrition during training)
2) lets skip #1 and assume that SVA by a miraculous way hires 500 pilots per year. Those people will wait for ever for the GACA oral exam plus the GACA check ride in the sim plus the GACA check ride in LT(captains only). Right now a large number of mainly T7 crews are on a stby pool for the oral exams because GACA has a very limited capacity.guys left for Sim abroad without having take the exams and without having a set date after their return.and 2 new classes start every month!!
3) all in all SVA will face out The first B 777 (replacing them with 787 and 777) who joined the fleet 17 years ago and the E170 and replace them most propably with A318-319. And thats the reason they start looking for expat FOs (so far all expat FOs ) were invited only for the WB. 100 new aircrafts is certainly a number beyond company's capacity and mostly because of the structure of training which is required by GACA