Originally Posted by ImSoSuss

You will never see the hiring wave you saw from late 2021 through early 2023 again. That is pretty much fact. You had the combination of multiple "Major" airlines scrambling for pilots because they cut way too many during COVID combined with historical high in retirements. The problem was that people got used to that and think that is what a hiring wave looks like. It does not look like that at all, it was more like a hiring tsunami. So no, nothing postponed about it. It was unprecedented and we'll never see it again. We're back to more normal periods of hiring waves that will come and go.