AMR Still Shrinking
02-01-2010 | 04:52 PM
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AMR Still Shrinking
We once had over 810 aircraft - we're now down to 593 and still shrinking. 80s are being parked faster than 73s coming online. We also have the longest time to upgrade of any legacy carrier and upgrades are getting longer. Latest Captain upgrade was a '92 hire. And we also have more guys over the age of 60 than under the age of 40 - this while furloughing. And we still have the BA/Iberia AI to look foward to. Not the career most of us had hoped for I'm afraid - very much a job these days..
02-01-2010 | 06:25 PM
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We once had over 810 aircraft - we're now down to 593 and still shrinking. 80s are being parked faster than 73s coming online. We also have the longest time to upgrade of any legacy carrier and upgrades are getting longer. Latest Captain upgrade was a '92 hire. And we also have more guys over the age of 60 than under the age of 40 - this while furloughing. And we still have the BA/Iberia AI to look foward to. Not the career most of us had hoped for I'm afraid - very much a job these days..
02-01-2010 | 06:49 PM
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I think you have to upgrade very shortly after your number comes up. Not sure why, though..some people like money, some like QOL. Why not let then make up their own minds.
02-01-2010 | 06:57 PM
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We once had over 810 aircraft - we're now down to 593 and still shrinking. 80s are being parked faster than 73s coming online. We also have the longest time to upgrade of any legacy carrier and upgrades are getting longer. Latest Captain upgrade was a '92 hire. And we also have more guys over the age of 60 than under the age of 40 - this while furloughing. And we still have the BA/Iberia AI to look foward to. Not the career most of us had hoped for I'm afraid - very much a job these days..
I'd love to see a graph of mainline airplanes plotted versus the year, alongside another line showing the # of regional jets flying each year. It would look like a huge "X." Of course, a graph of pilot pay would look like "\" but management pay would be a nice "/"
02-01-2010 | 07:05 PM
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You are talking about the "Captain clock." It has sine been done away with. Basically, when your # came up for upgrade, you had to upgrade within, I believe, 2 years. It was AA's way of getting around age discrimination by not hiring anyone old enough to NOT make CA.
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