Originally Posted by
Freeflyfreak
School or College graduation year has a high degree of correlation with age without asking.
They never tell you why you got the TBNT letter, it could have been anything.
I am just saying what I would do.
When they are getting close to 50% of hires who are guaranteed to be older right now because they have been stuck at Eagle for 12+ years.
The guys leaving Eagle to flow right now are almost all 45-55, which will become eventually 35-45.
If I was HR I would want to balance out that demographic with younger off the street guys to minimize a future retirement crunch.
I could be totally wrong, just speculating based on my twisted view of things.
from an economic perspective, older pilots = cheaper pilots. they stay on the seniority list for a shorter amount of time and have their B funds contributed for less time, resulting in a bigger cost savings when they hire their (older) replacement.
you see corporations everywhere trying to get rid of their older, more expensive employees in favor of young cheap labor. luckily we're contractually protected from this. but if youre looking at this from a pure cost perspective, hiring guys in their 40s is probably the sweet spot.
and maybe to take it one more step further, consider hiring guys at age 53. they top out the 12 year pay scale just as they retire. Hire their replacement at age 53, and repeat the process, minimizing the amount you contribute to their B funds. Of course this is not realistic, and no airline would ever do this, especially a self-insured airline where you trade labor costs for health insurance costs of an aging pilot group