Originally Posted by
FirstClass
I don't believe your numbers are correct, also you don't have Southwest pilots in there. Further without any other data, I cannot tell whether your AA numbers include USAirways. Also, what the numbers do not take into account is the age of the regional pilots who will replace major airline pilots.
We could also include JetBlue, Frontier, and Spirit in that count.
My data is from an Alpa article, but here is another article showing 18,000.
I see what you're saying now, I didn't include past numbers. I assumed you meant retirements going forward since you were talking about depleting regionals at the levels today. I added southwest for about 12,400 in the next 6 years.
Originally Posted by
The Chow
Do you have a breakdown of where those 20k regional pilots work?
I didn't realize there were so many.
Not up to date but here's an estimate.
