Originally Posted by
El Peso
Hiring at the legacies would come to a full stop. Keep in mind everyone is over hiring with the anticipation of the retirements. Once the retirements come to a halt, the training cycles will stop (upgrades, transition) everyone will be over staffed overnight. Doubt there would be many furloughs since the extra pilots could be used to realize growth ambitions, but the hiring will stop. Obviously the big winners will the regionals who can finally catch up on staffing, and of course the ULCC’s who are having their own retention problems at the moment.
Oh, and of course the most obvious thing that’ll happen if 67 passes, these geezers will start screaming about age 70!
Except that at places like Delta are hiring over 2000 a year, yet retiring only about 600.... so there's that problem with your "hiring would come to a full stop" spiel......
I think UAL has plans to GROW their seniority list to something like 18,000 pilots (yes that was the plan in 2010 as well, but this time they mean it).