Originally Posted by
pangolin
Age 67 will slow hiring at mainline for a short time. Hopefully long enough to get upgrade qualified FOs in the pipeline and slow captain attrition at the regionals.
Won’t work. The de facto hiring freeze now at the regionals means that the majors will be hiring not only regional CAs but FOs who are even vaguely close to upgrading. Which will ultimately leave the regionals with a huge gap that will eat up those two years. The newbie zero 121 time FOs eventually hired are going to take at least two years to get upgrade eligible considering training time, vacations, etc. Not to mention a whole lot of major pilots aren’t going to wait to 67 to retire. Especially after a few decades of maxed out 401k contributions. It’s not just the $320-350 even a NB CA will be getting, it’s the 16-17% DC too. By that time they’ll have all their toys bought and kids out of college and will be looking to play with those toys and their grandchildren.