Seniority Progression
 

A question for you young bucks. Which airline DL or UA has the best seniority progression outlook if hired today? I'm doing some research for my kid. He has 35+ years to work.

Thanks

I know your special dad but for the rest of the 99% of us imagine if your dad got on here to research seniority progression at delta vs United for you. That would be mind blowing

LOL. I'm special in more ways than the FAA allows. For my seniority progression, the research is more about cremation and such.

You Juniors have a great carrier ahead of you. Enjoy, time goes fast but live fast in the time.

Short term definitely UAL.

But longer term, somebody with access to the retirement numbers would have to answer that, there might be more demographic bubbles in either or both lists down the road.

Widgetseniority.com has lots of good info for delta specifically but also has a page that compares the seniority progression of all 3 carriers. Assuming both carriers remain about the same size as each other, It looks like UA and DL are +/- 5% throughout your son’s carrier.

DL is better til about 2030
then UA is better until 2050
then DL is better for the remainder of the chart that goes out til 2053.

AAL has a 10+% advantage over the other two for the next 30 years.

someone hired today at 30 at DL would retire around # 900

And someone hired today at 30, at AA, will retire sub 300.

American

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Smart question, but dont' think it's an answerable one.

Even if there was some way to compare relative seniority at DL vs UA for first/second/final third of your career ... what's to say that the "value" of that seniority to you is gonna be the same over time.

Yeah, everyone likes being senior, but some people get more curveballs from life than others.

There's 396 guys <30 at AA as of 11/18/2023 per aapilots.

He's a grown man...time for daddie to stop doing his homework.

Just because you never met your dad doesn’t mean you need to bash his attempt to help his son. I wish my dad was able to land me a major airline gig early on. I would do the same for my son.

He's not helping him land anything, he's doing something his son can do himself. Now kick rocks....

Lighten up, Francis.

🙄

Amen.

There are back doors to everything, but good luck finding them. Old men know things about employment, professions, careers, and networking.

Google tells you a great deal, but not much that's very useful. Wikipedia tells you even more (most of it is transparent BS; the remainder is non-transparent BS)

I'd say "Get the major airline offer first. Ride it out for a year, or three. Then commit.".

You don't know what you don't know. The extreme pickiness of "which major?" is an anomoly and won't last long.

So how many rejection notices have you received so far?

He just doesn't want his kid to end up selling cheese sandwiches for a living. Daddy would you like some sausage?