Originally Posted by
Beta82
FWIW, Had a 787 FO in the jumpseat yesterday; he said he would be 87% in the most junior narrow body domicile as a captain. He was 19 years at United.
1999 DOH at United was bad. Probably furloughed twice in the lost decade. But that's not the case going forward. At Delta, in 19 years from 2019-2037 they retire 10,000 pilots out of their ~14,700. United retires a similar percentage of their 12,600ish pilots over those 19 years.