Originally Posted by
Throwitaway
Pangolin is right, a major has 1000 (max) retiring per year and they are able to train 2000. The airlines are absolutely replacing the covid early outs and catching up with retirements. The hiring will not be this crazy 2 years from now. Legacy Airline jobs will be harder to come by. Let's hope we get these contracts hammered out before that happens and we lose any shred of leverage currently held.
i disagree. Look at the order books for new narrow bodies at the majors. Then look at those at the regionals.
https://i.ibb.co/NNgmXx1/E504-F7-FA-...AB285-F4-D.jpg
Most current hiring at legacies only covers their incentivized early retirements for COVID.
The majors will need to replace their FUTURE retirees and staff those new aircraft while the ULCCs (including all the new kids on the block) and LCCs continue their own expansions. And the regionals have already nearly exhausted the DEC supply.