Originally Posted by
757Driver
So Delta and AA will be static huh? Wonder why on earth they are hiring so many when we are hiring so few?
Hope your right but if you'd like to make a wager, I'd say your wrong. We will languish behind the rest in distant 3rd place as long as PAR and Altimeter have anything to do with it.
whats the old adage thats thrown around by United pilots? Hire right up until the day they furlough?
DL just parked the first of their MD80s, 170 to go by 2020. I bet you see hiring at DL fall way off in 2018 and 2019 as they shuffle all those MD80 pilots around. When the shuffling is done they will be the same size as they just don't have the aircraft on order to grow. AA has a ton more retirements than us so they are hiring more as they are replacing 1-1 on aircraft, but again they don't have enough aircraft on order to grow. We on the other hand our aircraft on order are for growth.
Id wager that by 2025 all three majors (AA, DL, UA) will all be within 100 acft of each other. We may still be third but it wont be distant.