AA Hiring any time soon?
02-29-2008 | 06:32 AM
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03-01-2008 | 04:41 AM
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Mergers, strikes, layoffs... welcome to the airlines. Every airline that ever merged still has pilots angry at each other, no matter how long ago or how they were integrated (Flifast, this is for you. 
) AA is no exception... neither is NWA (Republic), USAir (Piedmont), TWA (OZ), etc. They are all still *****ing and moaning about getting screwed.. in some cases, over 20 years later! Standard protocol.
) AA is no exception... neither is NWA (Republic), USAir (Piedmont), TWA (OZ), etc. They are all still *****ing and moaning about getting screwed.. in some cases, over 20 years later! Standard protocol. 
Great post and dead on! I tell my wife all the time I'd give my two front teeth to fly my old TWA 757 LAX red eyes again. The ones I used to loath! You do not realize how great one has it until it is taken away (just a general statement here, not opening up past postings
). But I am very afraid that I will never have that same feeling at my new home. Since 2001 it has really taken a toll (mentally and physically) on myself and family and I do not know if it will ever be the same. That is why I said, knowing what I know now....... I would have done something different.
03-01-2008 | 09:12 AM
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Dude that was funny as hell..... at least for me.
Great post and dead on! I tell my wife all the time I'd give my two front teeth to fly my old TWA 757 LAX red eyes again. The ones I used to loath! You do not realize how great one has it until it is taken away (just a general statement here, not opening up past postings). But I am very afraid that I will never have that same feeling at my new home. Since 2001 it has really taken a toll (mentally and physically) on myself and family and I do not know if it will ever be the same. That is why I said, knowing what I know now....... I would have done something different.
Great post and dead on! I tell my wife all the time I'd give my two front teeth to fly my old TWA 757 LAX red eyes again. The ones I used to loath! You do not realize how great one has it until it is taken away (just a general statement here, not opening up past postings
). But I am very afraid that I will never have that same feeling at my new home. Since 2001 it has really taken a toll (mentally and physically) on myself and family and I do not know if it will ever be the same. That is why I said, knowing what I know now....... I would have done something different.On a brighter note, AA just announced a second recall class in April (April 15) for another 15 recallees, bringing the total to 35 pilots in April. (I know, small increase but heading in the right direction.)
Good luck bro.
Getting myself psyched up for the MOARE "Mother of All Red Eyes (JFK-EZE-JFK - double all nighter.)
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03-01-2008 | 05:13 PM
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JFK-EZE, departs around 22:00, arrives around 10am. Layover, next day leaves EZE around 22:00 and arrives JFK around 10am. So you get one night of "decent" sleep down there. At least there are no time zone changes.
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03-01-2008 | 05:43 PM
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03-01-2008 | 08:20 PM
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68% of captains and 41% of first officers are above the age of 50. 53% of the total group is above 50. 86% of the total pilot seniority list (not including furloughees) is above the age of 45. From 2010 to 2020: 2981 pilots are going to retire. From 2021 to 2025: another 3497 will retire. The rest of the seniority list will be retiring by 2028. This is all based on age 65.
The jury is still out on how many guys will stay beyond age 60. Since AA still has a descent retirement, it's anybody's guess. The current thinking is 30% will retire when they had planned (age 60 or sooner), 30% will go another year of two (61-63), and the rest will stay to 65. Doing the math, if you are a young stud with a freshly minted 400 hour job at a regional, and you get hired at AA around the 2010-2012 time frame, you should be at 50% of the seniority list by 2022-2023 (10 year time frame). This assumes a "steady state" at AA for the foreseeable future.
Having said that, I don't think there is a lot of "steady state" in this industry.
Good luck.
The jury is still out on how many guys will stay beyond age 60. Since AA still has a descent retirement, it's anybody's guess. The current thinking is 30% will retire when they had planned (age 60 or sooner), 30% will go another year of two (61-63), and the rest will stay to 65. Doing the math, if you are a young stud with a freshly minted 400 hour job at a regional, and you get hired at AA around the 2010-2012 time frame, you should be at 50% of the seniority list by 2022-2023 (10 year time frame). This assumes a "steady state" at AA for the foreseeable future.
Having said that, I don't think there is a lot of "steady state" in this industry.
Good luck.
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