Originally Posted by
Nevjets
Just to emphasize this point even more, the high water make for XJT was in late 2008 with 274 aircraft and over 3,000 pilots. Now it is down to about 130 aircraft, scheduled to be down to 101 by the end of 2017 and half the pilots. And the CPA is scheduled to end at the end of 2018.
On the CRJ side at one point ASA had 130 CRJ-200s (2006-2007) alone. By the end of 2017 all CRJ-200s will be parked and they'll be left with between 75-80 CRJ-700s/CRJ-900s operating for AA and Delta. The AA CPA expires in 2019 and the Delta CPA expires in 2020. When the CRJ-200 is officially retired later this year, to hold Captain in ATL it will require approximately 17-18 years of service, or more...and that is to be the plug on reserve.