Originally Posted by
mulcher
our retirement numbers are anemic the next two years compared to what they want to hire. They wouldn’t even cover attrition.
Captains retiring
within 12 months - 112
within 2 years - 248
within 3 years - 471
within 5 years - 960
FOs retiring
within 12 months - 1
within 2 years - 6
within 3 years - 11
within 5 years - 24
Thank you for those numbers. I agree, not much action on our side of the house. But like someone mentioned earlier, the concern is that Delta wouldn’t have as much of an incentive to poach our pilots anymore! The Legacies would get some relief and thus, leave more bodies available for SWA.
However, someone had a good synopsis as to why it would make it potentially too expensive and a training nightmare for the Legacies. Each aircraft move by a pilot causes other training events down the line. The presumption is that senior citizens would not be allowed to be Captain on a back of the clock ocean crossing. I think……