Originally Posted by
Mitch Rapp05
15 year is misleading since they were furloughed for most of that time. How many ACTIVE years do these pilots have?
Not many in some cases. Flew with a pilot this year who had one solitary month on the line in early 2000 after new hire training and did not enter a cockpit again until Jan 2014. Between the furloughs and FMLA it was 14 years away from the industry.