Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
If your favorite president keeps cutting regulations in his new term and letting the economy roar (as well as drilling for oil) then we could be at 1,500 at the end of the year. The wealth effect is real. There are thousands of newly minted millionaires this month. Elections have consequences.
Unless our favorite president gets Boeing and Airbus to deliver planes on time, that ain’t happening.
I am always amused by people who think things will magically change in some huge way. Barring insanely high tariffs or essentially impossible levels of mass deportation to crash the economy, absolutely nothing will change on a scale that quick. The economic impact of most policies is measured on the scale of years to decades.
The most likely policy to affect hiring immediately would be age 67. That would probably result in a reduction of 300-400 pilots needed per year for two years.