Originally Posted by
C5Drvr
So would UAL continue to bring pilots onbaord if they are paying pilots to sit at home? Seems to me that everything, except building a pool, would be put on hold, but that is me on the outside looking in?
It all depends.
Economically, it would make total sense to hire pilots for the MAX deliveries **if** the widebody issue in the far east is considered
temporary. UAL is constrained by a union contract with a seniority list. This is a good thing for both current and prospective pilots as the corporate economic decision matrix is quite different compared to a non-union airline.
It's the scenario where there's a global recession (including the USA) where hiring stops. Period.
One can also easily envision various plausible scenarios between the extremes.