Originally Posted by
Moonbeam
Is your side gig selling those Bored Ape NFT's to unsuspecting suckers? History shows these hiring booms rarely last long and are usually followed by long periods of little hiring. FAPA.aero has the hiring history for every major airline since 2000 if you need to check it out.
You could have bought a Bored Ape for $200 when it launched. Today they are $300k-$1.3M on Opensea.
United has 500 retirements a year (on average) for the next 10 years (That’s 5,000 pilots). Also we have 650 airplanes (100 787s) on FIRM order with 200 options (100 787s). We are replacing 400 RJs with mainline planes.
And when you say “History” no airline in the history of aviation has grown by 100 planes a year and United is doing it 5 years in a row. So we HAVE to hire pilots. This isn’t a traditional boom/bust cycle of an airline. SK has decided to completely change the game in his favor to win in the commercial airline world.
The great thing about what United is doing is that you don’t have to be at United to watch the growth and expansion. You can watch it from any airline.
I predict a lot of regret out there that people passed on United or waited a few years to apply, just like the people that didn’t buy Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs as $200.