If you look at it that way, which is sort of a wrong way to think of it, but... Airbus 320 is your safest fleet type for the next 50 years. The different low cost operators will come and go, wasting investors money while making the next executive team rich, but as a pilot you can really only strive to control your date of hire at a long term operator.

The Airbus 320 and 737 type ratings are the most versatile/valuable in the world if you wanna look at the type rating and fleet size as some sort of job security.

The CRJ and Embraer small series aircraft is out of production. Meaning the fleet will only dwindle down as airplanes are parked. The regionals don't have any job security by way of a large fleet/abundant operators.

Airbus 320neo series still have thousands of orders (8k?), most still to be built and delivered, and thousands of orders will be made in the future.

737max is similar, with thousands (5k?) to be built, but possibility that new orders will go to a new type.

 

Not entirely true. We have Embraer 175s in our fleet (YX) made as recently as December 2022.

 

I think by Embraer “small series” they were referring to the E-145 and its earlier regional turboprop predecessors. The E-170-190 type rating is valuable not only for the 175 but also for the 190s and would require only differences training for the newer E-2 series, although those are sort of scope limited in the US.

But yeah, right now today for employability A320 and B727 are the types to have worldwide. And of the two, the 320 is probably the best unless you aspire to SWA or Alaska, since upgrade to the 330 and 350 aircraft is pretty easy with minimal additional training.

 

B727, not B737? Typo?

 

‘His point still stands, the E-170 type really doesn’t have my long term value vs the 737/A320 type… E-175 aircraft is capped due to scope and limited number of operators internationally…. US carriers aren’t running to add the E-190s to fleets…

 

Yep. Big thumbs, small phone.