Originally Posted by
Flytolive
Since 2011 65 more mainline aircraft of which there is a net 33 more in the top pay band. 11,107 (11/18) - 10,188 (11/13) = 919 more active pilots than five years ago.
United will hire/recall nearly 700 pilots in 2018 with April & May being the only two months with no hiring.
SWA & Air Tran only hired 200 pilots in 2.5 years after their deal closed.
Nope
Yep
Hilarious, but don't quit your day job.
Yeah, you too tough guy.
Funny how you selectively edit my quote to leave out the part where I say:
"You do remember we stopped hiring basically from March to Sept, with a few add classes in between?"
Nice edit. Do you work for NBC news?
Also, over the last 5 years, United has had a lot more retirements than DL, SWA, or AA. It's true that now retirements at the combined AA will now start to eclipse UAL for the next decade, but we're talking about what we've seen recently.
According to this data on this website it looks like we've stayed on par with AA and SWA (if you don't factor in UALs increased retirement numbers), but DL has crushed everyone almost by a factor of 2. SWA and DL have had meager retirements in the last 5 years, AA has had close, but not quite as many as UAL in the last 5 years. I don't see retirement numbers on that website. If its' listed there, I can't find it.
Although I can't prove it, I'm confident if you could see the hires/retired net gain over the past 5 years, then SWA and AA would have higher numbers than UAL.