Originally Posted by
STXDrew
Just got a LCA email that stated initial hiring projections are being revised from 300 to 1000 by years end. We are also buying an additional two 737 MAX sims for a total of five (full flight MAX sims). As always its TK news so take with a grain of salt.
Looking from the outside. Hard for me to believe United has the capacity to hire and train 1000 pilots between now and the end of 2021. Don’t think they have ever hired at that rate in their history. The end of 2022 is very doable.
AA has said, conservative, they will hire 900 by the end of 2022. The 2018 peak (2019 was slowed due to Mad Dog retirement retraining) was 939.