Originally Posted by
Cujo665
once the Airbus-Boeing-Pratt-and CFM LEAP engine issues get resolved you'll see a noticeable uptick in hiring again at all the legacies and LCC's. All of them have lots of planes down for engine MX issues and back orders on deliveries. It should go back to the pre Covid 2018-2019 levels which is pretty good. Depending which airline we're talking about, there 4-8 more years of increased hiring. Then after that, I agree with you, that it will be decades before another huge hiring wave. The reality is though that even then it will still be better than the lost decade where there was no hiring at all.
it's all going to depend on how demand shapes itself out during this time of uncertainty. If demand is not there it doesn't matter how many aircraft are delivered, they will hire to meet the demand not aircraft. They'll just speed up delayed AC retirements instead.