Originally Posted by
waker92
Im not sure what you're trying to say here. who's retiring over 5000, AA? And how could being at Envoy/PDT sacrifice seniority? What do you feel is the best option to get to AA?
Legacy AA retiring over 5000 in 10 years. 10300 total on the list.
Combined with USair it's over 15000 pilots and I don't know the numbers on the US side but I think they are an even older group.
By sacrificing seniority what I mean is if you are going to get hired at a flow airline you will have to wait many years to get over there. Meanwhile if you go get some PIC and make the effort you could get hired off the street or DAL, UAL a lot faster. Retirements will really start to sky rocket around 2019.
Going the flow route has it's merits.. you may not get hired at all so it can be a sort of insurance policy but will sacrifice some seniority.
Since you ask about best option to AA specifically I would probably play it safe and go to a flow airline but still make the effort to get hired straight off the street. It's an individual choice though. Too many factors like where ya want to live and what not.