Originally Posted by TenYearsGone

+1. "One World"



British Airways has started their add campaign to hire pilots via ab-initio or new-hire. I saw one of their adds in back of an Airliner magazine. It basically says that they will need 800 pilots very soon and that there will be big retirements at BA (age 55, full retirement and medical). Ryan Air, Emirates etc, are starting this pipeline to get warm blood in their seats before the crunch.

If we are not proactive/defensive, the US Airlines will have much similar fate as compared to the US cruise/shipping industry.

TEN