Originally Posted by
pilot28042
Do you really wanna go to an airline that’s putting half its eggs in the international basket and hiring for United next rather than retirements? UA is gonna be massive and one downturn is gonna be detrimental to their pilot group
AA/DL are hiring for retirements for now and not growth. Worst case a recession hits and they chop from the head instead of the toe with retirements and early outs
This is a very astute observation, really big gamble on the future economy. They're taking delivery on roughly 300 aircraft in the next 2 years, highly dependent on the demand being there for domestic and then even more so international. Denver to Houston on a half full 78 can't be too profitable.