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
United is currently starting large weekly classes, hiring continues, and the majority of the aircraft are “planned” as growth. Raising fuel prices and weakening demand can always alter those plans, but for right now it’s full speed ahead (either towards success or into a brick wall). I seriously doubt that the Willis Tower crowd is even remotely interested in adding a costly and time consuming merger to the mix, especially one where most of the acquired aircraft would never see conversion or entry into revenue service.