Originally Posted by
BurnerAccount69
Direct hire, mid 2017 hire date. Not the norm for sure, I saw a breakdown of AA hiring and its a super low percentage of street hires. Interesting to see how long its taking to get out of PSA purgatory.
Most pilots seem to be getting out now from the middle of the list. For some reason, the pilots at the top seem to be hanging around, and the ones at the bottom are still building 121 time.
What these guys don't understand is that the "sweet spot" to get hired at the legacy airlines has already passed and they need to get in to a final career job now. All of the legacies have hired a few thousand young guys in the last couple years already. If you get hired at a legacy 18 months from now, you are probably looking at a 10+ year upgrade, and it could be much closer to 20 years.
AA has 5000 pilots with 20 years left. Also, currently, AA has 5500 captains total on their list. What happens when AA hires 2500 more in the next 18 months? That will be much closer to 7000 pilots under the age of 45. Poof. 20 year upgrades.