Originally Posted by
Ni hao
In 2021 coming out of Covid. United in the span of 3.5 years hired over 8000 pilots. Most of the 8000 were under the age of 30-34 and a LARGE % under 27 years old.
That is not accurate.
United currently has ~18K pilots
Aproximately 1000 have retirement dates 2060 or later
Of those, 700 have numbers under 16K
Just over 100 have numbers under 13K
There were some people who got very, very lucky. But it's not thousands