6000 can hold it. For the last 10 months of this year we have 99 retirements. I think about 10 are out sick. Of the 89 left a quick count shows 60 or so actually holding 7ER or higher.

 

Not arguing your factual (99) retirement numbers, but how realistic is it that only ~100 pilots will retire by year's end?

Someone posted in the past (you/PG?), that a more realistic number equals total (scheduled) retirements, plus ~10% of the list. My apologies if my assumptions/understanding of previous post is wrong.

GJ
(Moved ~20 numbers last month alone.)

 

I'm right around 6000, Timbo. I've got a little more than 10 guys below me on the Er list in NYC.


…and it sucks. No one should ever bid NYC. It's hard.

 

What? NYC is super easy. The high speed rail wisks you between all 3 close in airports, unless you're a "local" with a 3-5 hour drive in traffic of course. But at least real estate is cheap and the taxes are low, so you can relocate at the drop of a hat.

 

Bingo. And if you commute, you never have to worry about the weather. There are never any delays and the loads are always wide open.

 

6000 can hold it. For the last 10 months of this year we have 99 retirements. I think about 10 are out sick. Of the 89 left a quick count shows 60 or so actually holding 7ER or higher.

 

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The actual list of retiring pilots and their positions is on Deltanet.

Simply count the ones flying ER captain or above. It is much less than half.

 

This time between football and baseball is always difficult.

The NBA and NHL just don't suffice.
March Madness helps fill the void.
But still.

 

Hahaha! I spent my childhood flying cancelled checks in/out of JFK, LGA and EWR (down the river, statue visual to 29, high speed taxi to Butler Aviation, we'd make SW look like slowpokes!)

15 years later I'm flying for DAL, based in BOS when Mo'Ron decides to close all the little bases; BOS, ORD, MIA, IAH, MSY, and some I'm forgetting sure, but 99.9% of the BOS 767 guys said, "I'll just bid the ER in JFK. Should be an easy commute with the LGA Shuttle..."

I about died laughing. I said, "You do that, and you'll have a good time commuting when it starts snowing in NY. I'm bidding MD11 F/O in ATL."

I still remember being number 45 for takeoff out of JFK in the Turbo Commode, and then the front passed, and then they spun the airport, from 13 to 31... and two hours later we got airborne.

You can have it! The less I see of NYC, the happier I am. I hear that new terminal 4 is wonderful, and then taking the sky train to the bus, to the van, to the layover sounds like a hoot!

My mom said they got a foot of snow up in NH today, while I was out sailing in a T shirt and shorts, with my dog trying to drink up the lake! Any wonder I moved south? I have not had to shovel my car out in 15 years, and no, I do not miss that! I miss playing pond hockey and downhill skiing, but I make up for that by going sailing in 84 degrees in Feb.

 

Interesting math. Still looking for the 1996 pay chart. But, in 1994, a 7ER Captain made a base rate that was 36 dollars per hour higher than an MD88 Captain. Today the difference is 19 dollars per hour. That's off higher rates, so adjusted for that it would be like making 40 dollars difference from the MD88 today. That gap went away because we took a huge cut on the 7ER fleet. As I said, we are flying it for what amounts to narrowbody rates.

It's interesting to look at those old pay charts, then factor in the touching trips, 6 weeks vacation for senior guys, 1 for 2, etc... we have a lot to recoup. I know the execs have kept up with inflation, and then some.