That guy is a complete toolbag.

 

I know him, he was hired a few months after me, super nice guy. When the geezers would ask him what he'd been flying, he would say, "Last week I was towing banners up and down the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, now I'm a Delta Pilot!"

I was not the baby in my class, I was 26, as was one other guy and a few in the two classes ahead of us. The baby in our class was 24.

But there were two geezers in my class, they were both 34!

One retired just prior to the bankruptcy, the other is still here and about 62 now. 6 pilots from my new hire class left prior to the bankruptcy, the rest are still here....and all but one are still senior to me!

When I was growing up, most of my airline pilot/instructors and mentors told me you had to get hired before you turned 28, or you were considered too old. I was bumming when I turned 25 and wasn't hired yet...but none of the Majors were hiring then, so all I could do was keep flying night freight and KC135's and wait for a call.

Of course we didn't have this fancy Internet thingy to get all the interview gouge.

North West was sued in about 1991 for age discrimination by some guys who were interviewed but not hired in the mid 1980's, they were in their 40's when interviewed. The pilots won, and NW had to re interview and hire a bunch of them (58 of them I think?), and give them date of hire from their original interviews.

 

That graph is fascinating. I wonder how many pilots are under the age of 40. Looks like at least a thousand. I wish we could get a similar graph for UAL and AAL too. It would be interesting to see which group has the highest number of young(ish) pilots. My bet is UAL...

 

Just flew with one last week. Great guy and a lurker here. Matter of fact the last 3 FO's I've flown with are APC lurkers. All great guys.



UOTE=forgot to bid;1576040]Sort of, there are a few 2010 hires that haven't even hit 30 yet. There is an 07 hire from 2007 that is 32, hired at 25.[/QUOTE]

 

Speaking of retirements....

turn on NBC right now, Jay Leno is about to do his last Tonight Show.

 

Thanks for the heads up, Timbo!

 

I'm not sure other than the reasons I stated. It wasn't said they wouldn't place new hires into the ER, just that they prefer not too. I guess the answer will be known in less than 30 days.
It sounded like they may put the ER slots out again in the AE coming in the next several weeks. Patience will show us the answer.

 

Actually there are two of those. BD and CF they are a month apart in age.

 

I heard the same thing. Total Doooch'

 

But which one is senior?

BD is the one I was talking about, with his banner towing story.