Originally Posted by SkyHigh

Here is one: For the last five years the military has been producing over 11,000 new pilots each year. Civilian flight schools produce somewhere over 8,000 new commercial pilots each year. There are only 65,000 good major airline pilot jobs total in the country and the average pilot has a 25 year career. Divide the total number of good airline pilot jobs (65K) by the average pilot career duration (25) and you might be interested in the number you get the be fought over by over 20,000 new pilots created every year.

Each year the amount of good pilot jobs shrink and are being replaced by regional or LCC jobs.

Now imagine what will happen if they increase the maximum age to 65 or 70.

The luckly few who make it to the next level get to enjoy the likelyhood of getting laid off, furloughed or merged out of exsistance. Fun.


SkyHigh