you are saying that NWA is losing 30 pilots a month? Where are they going? Is this due to mostly retirements? It must be. I have seen that most of the other airlines are adding narrow body planes to their fleet, where as NWa seems to be only slated for the new boeing 787 orders which does not seem that big compared to other orders. Then there are the remaining 330 deliveries..... With the scheduled parking of the 9's and the loss of the 319's how is this any growth to compete with the other airlines in taking market share for the expected growth of air travel? Does NWA just plan on covering this growth with 76 seat flying? Whats up with that? should we expect any a/c orders from NWA thats larger than 110 seats?
Heyas XJ,
Your analysis is close to the mark. There's really no long term growth at all, and lots of flying being lost to the RJs.
The actual attrition is about 25-35/mo, although some months it's higher. That number represents the actual shrinkage of the seniority list, so it's actually a 25-35 net loss after you add in recalled pilots. The list went from about 5600 to 5300 in a year.
It's a mix of retirements and resignations. One of the LEC reps in MEM just quit to go to UPS.
Nu