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!
I don’t think it would come to a halt, especially at AA. Two years is pretty short. We are way behind on training and they could keep hiring and training in anticipation of the retirements resuming. It would actually allow the airline to catch up. Also, it takes a lot of work to re spin up hiring if they stop. I’m guessing we’d hire at nearly the same rate. Anyway, I hope we don’t find out.