Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Maybe a slowdown, but the retirements continue into the next decade. It would take significant shrinkage at the legacies to stop all or most hiring across the board for more than a year or two. It should be back soon.
Does look like the peak of the wave has passed though.
idk how retirements look at other airlines, but DL’s are not spectacular. We have roughly 17,000 pilots on the list now, if you figure an average hire age of 35* that should yield about 570 retirements per year. Not counting 2024, we only have 4 years between now and 2040 where we have over 500 scheduled retirements. With the biggest year being 556 in 2030.
*2023 average new hire age was 35.6.