If the economy stays up and airlines want to grow plus staff retirements I think there will be plenty of mainline jobs to go around. American is ramping up hiring now. They don’t require the vaccine yet. Corporate is booming. Maybe all of this will blow over and the mandates will end.

worst case scenario is that the jabs carry long term adverse effects causing issues for our pilot population across all carriers. Just read the pilot briefing about pilot incapacitation that came out on the 13th. Might just be a reminder of procedures or there might be a datapoint that the company is seeing a trend in kinda like the packs and bleeds addition to the checklist due to flights taking off not pressurizing.

Going forward I would like to see pushback if any company tries to mandate booster shots to be considered “fully vaccinated”. I would like to see ALPA step in and draw the line or pick their hill to die on. If we do see an influx of vaccine injured pilots in the long run this issue sits squarely on their shoulders as an organization. Bottom line: they didn’t protect the most important aspect to air travel infrastructure.. pilots.