Originally Posted by
OpieTaylor
Because heavy growth and attrition is required to have a successful career there. If you get hired by an LCC and they quit growing you will have 0 movement based on pilots turning 65. Every company can’t double in size forever, and if the contract is on par then that shuts down attrition. Someone will have a stagnant career there, just no one knows when that pilot was/will be hired.
and that's different than anywhere else how?
'muricans retirements look good on paper, dude did a breakdown on the FB group, its still good movement but not as great as it would seem from a purely 15000 pilots minus 6000 retiring simple math perspective. In other words, if you want to be LGA 737 Captain in <1 year you can do it, still looking at 7+ years to widebody FO that flies regularly if that's your thing, talk about stagnant - widebody seniority list is as stagnant as it gets. United has the largest widebody fleet and its no different.