Originally Posted by Seminole00

Are you sure about that 75% at 2051 part? Use 17000 as a reference, 75 percent put the number at 12750 or 4250 retirements. Spread out 27 years that’s only 157 retirements per year. This is assuming no growth at all and no early retirements. In 27 years we will lose more than 13000 pilots due to retirements and 4000/17000 put you at about 23 percent. I suspect you had the two percentage backwards.