Originally Posted by
Zoomie
While DL is hiring significantly too, DL has probably hired 5000 pilots in the 5-6 years pre-pandemic. UAL hired probably 2500 5-6 years pre-pandemic. DL grew to a 15000 pilot airline pre-pandemic.
UAL is at roughly 12500 active pilots right now looking to grow to over 15000, so that's 2500 pilots that if hired now could easily be junior to you on top of those hired to replace retirees.
DL guy here.
Pre-pandemic high was 14.7 total. Active pilots floated around in the low 13K range.
Just this month we finally got back to 14.7 total pilots, with 13.5 active.