Future AA new hire classes
 

Any insight or wild guess if AA is reconsidering to cancel or postpone future classes? I believe there are 3 starting in March.

We have to keep hiring to keep up with retirements.

That's true. But, would someone be crazy to leave an LCC such SWA, Alaska, JetBlue or Spirit to start at AA in 3 weeks with all this Coronavirus panic worldwide?

Hope so, I'm waiting on a class date

Relatively speaking, UA has a similar amount of retirements don't they? They do have a lot more pacific widebody flying though.

Just a hunch, but I'd imagine if UA is canceling classes, everyone else will start with that and evaluate where that puts them in the coming days/weeks.

By not holding classes we are effectively furloughing 70 people a month. It sucks to shrink but I am hopeful we will all be able to hold onto our jobs. I've run into a handful of new hires on OE lately.

Not quite same number of retirements. AA shows ~770 and UA ~ 350 for 2020.

I think we have more than twice as many retirements than United this year. I believe APC says ~366 retirements as United this year versus ~772 here at American. We are little bigger than UAL but not twice as big.

Not hiring for a year would shrink the list by 6-7%.

The airline could easily shrink 10% in this debacle now. Parking all the E190's, 767's, some 757's and deferring 787/max return.

The 737 and baby bus fleet needs heavy maintenance anyways.

Wait what? Why would AA slow hiring due to a virus? Aren’t there about 800 retirements this year? A thousand next year?

Yes, that is a valid point but... UA was planning to hire ~1200 in 2020 also. Just saying saying that a lot could change in the next month or eve 2 weeks. Hopefully this will be forgotten by most by the end of March.