Originally Posted by
CBreezy
No. Net jobs means total number employed. They do not take into consideration a massive retirement boom over the next 15-20 years. Projections say tens of thousands of pilots will be retiring. A net change of 4000 less pilots is not significant when compared to those changes. Also, I don't even trust those numbers they are quoting. What are their sources? They claim there are only 46,000 airline pilot jobs in the country? The big 3 airlines have somewhere around 37,000 pilots ALONE. That doesn't include regionals, southwest, Fedex, UPS, etc. According to Delta, new widebody orders will be for growth, not replacement. It takes pilots to fly those. I did math. Now you show me yours.
You're right. I think there are 80,000 airline pilots in the US, 20K at the regionals.
I suspect any projected job losses will be at the regional level as small jets are phased out and replaced with larger iron.
Net airline jobs = probably less.
Net pilots still needed to replace mandatory retirements = lots.