AA to hire 1500
09-30-2013 | 09:29 PM
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1500/5=300 pilots per year
300 is .017% of the roughly 17000 regional pilots in the US. Good luck with your lottery ticket.
As to the people having good careers in aviation that's all relative. I've said it before I'm 30 years old and even that is too old for the type of airline career I wanted. Flying with 14 days off the rest of my career is not ideal no matter the monetary value of my hours flown. My goal was to doze for dollars in the right seat with 21 days off a month and realistically that's not attainable unless you get hired very young and at the beginning of a wave.
This announcement is not "bad" news but it isn't good either, this is certainly no shortage.
300 is .017% of the roughly 17000 regional pilots in the US. Good luck with your lottery ticket.
As to the people having good careers in aviation that's all relative. I've said it before I'm 30 years old and even that is too old for the type of airline career I wanted. Flying with 14 days off the rest of my career is not ideal no matter the monetary value of my hours flown. My goal was to doze for dollars in the right seat with 21 days off a month and realistically that's not attainable unless you get hired very young and at the beginning of a wave.
This announcement is not "bad" news but it isn't good either, this is certainly no shortage.
10-01-2013 | 03:42 AM
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This doesn't make sense. If anything, ALPA would be fighting to get them hired at an ALPA carrier to raise their dues and replace the retirees leaving. ALPAs finances are going to take a massive hit in the next few years as topped out pilots retire and the average pay drops. Age 65 was a windfall for them, which is why they supported it.
10-01-2013 | 07:35 AM
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10-01-2013 | 08:28 AM
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Yeah, seems like Bzzt spent a little too much time listening to his flight school's BS. Someone did him a big disservice. At least he's only 30 - that's not very old for a career reboot.
10-01-2013 | 11:25 AM
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Airline management and the unions corrected that fantasy.......AFTER they got the needed number of idiots.
But hey, it got suckers, saps and simpletons in the door and by god, it still works today. Why just a few days ago, the same song and dance got hundreds of chumps to fleece themselves over at PSA without so much as a single encore necessary.
Dopey pilots........when will they ever learn ?
10-01-2013 | 12:36 PM
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Wasn't a flight school that tricked me it was my own stupidity. Never even thought about flying my whole life but after college I was looking for an easy career. I looked at only mainline details because I'm an idiot and by the time I found out about the regionals I was trapped.
10-01-2013 | 12:40 PM
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10-01-2013 | 12:48 PM
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Wasn't a flight school that tricked me it was my own stupidity. Never even thought about flying my whole life but after college I was looking for an easy career. I looked at only mainline details because I'm an idiot and by the time I found out about the regionals I was trapped.
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