Originally Posted by
gohome
As much as I like B6 and want to eventually work for them, I think JetBlue wont hire anymore. A merger will be announced soon and wont make any sense to start hiring after.
United just announced 250 aircrafts within next two years (i know most of them will be replacements but there is def some growth as well) and UA is not sending as many interview invites to OTS from last few months. May be thats because they don't need to hire if they’ll be getting 4000 or so JB pilots anyways.
I can be wrong but it’s kinda strange to me that UA is not hiring as aggressively as they had planned for and DL on the other hand is full throttle with hiring these days
If UA gets 250 new planes in two years, B6 pilots will not help staff those.
Merger announcement=> regulatory approval => financial consumation is 1-2 years.
Then JCBA, another 1-2 years.
Then SLI, another 1-2 years.
SLI will need to be complete before B6 pilots can fly UA airplanes (and vice versa). So realistically 4-ish years, maybe more. AS+HA is currently looking like maybe more.