Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
IMO it'd be an age thing. If you are already older then sticking it out at EK might be better. Starting over at the bottom of a 12,000 pilot list is a young man's game.
Right now there is more movement in 6 months than there has been in the last 6 years ... and the movement for the previous 15 years was often backwards.
Delta may hit 135 a month in early 15. From the L&G thread. Folks wanting UAL likely have good news too.
Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
A few seniority facts for the junior folks.
According to my math we had 241 retirements for 2014 based on the Dec seniority list.
I think we had less than 100 mandatory retirements scheduled.
2015 has 146 mandatory retirements scheduled.
At the start of 2014 I had 1099 guys/gals junior to me on the list
At the start of 2015 I will have 2037 guys/gals junior to me.
That is 938 numbers added to the list for the year.
12,316 total pilots on the list.
12,430 total pilots on the day of the SLI Dec 2008
January classes should put us back over the total number of pilots we had the date of the SLI.
Not a bad year for seniority movement at Delter.