440+ accepted the offer...
Yeah, and how many have resigned in the same time frame? Knowing this figure gives us a net pilot increase (or decrease!) number, the only relevant figure. This was the question I asked our leaders during the first (current style) forum back in January this year, but of course no answer was forthcoming. Perhaps too embarrassing....
Suffice to say that we were all then informed that pilot recruitment was blasting ahead so successfully that the roster issues would be addressed, and normality would return to life on the line by the middle of 2016. Well of course it hasn't. Nobody at the meeting believed it then, and nobody believes it now........
EK do yourself a favour, sort out your retention issues, and the recruitment issues will sort themselves out in turn.