Originally Posted by
rickair7777
There was similar hiring in the late 90's, it was just spread across smaller but more numerous major airlines... DL, NW, UA, CAL, AA, US, HP, HAL, AQ, etc
But is anybody’s schoolhouse big enough to do more than 1200? Do they have enough simulators? That is my point. Sorry I did not make it clear enough.
Did the big 3 keep the sims and schoolhouses of the airlines that merged into them? For example, did AA keep the schoolhouse and sims of TW? The answer is no. So it is a schoolhouse capacity issue.
Incidentally, the greatest number of pilots hired in a single year by all the majors was in 2000, when just over 5,100 were hired.