This is a very different environment from 2010, though. Retirements are actively occurring, the airline is growing, and we're having AE after AE with no displacements.

There will be announcement by April that hiring will be increased to 600+ for this year. They have to go back to the board for approval.
I know it is tough but keep the faith.

Looks like 42 is the average, highest was 57 and lowest is 31. Of those, 20 are 40-50, 16 are 30-40 and 8 are 50+.

Thanks for the info FTB and others. 31 to 57 is quite a spread.

I wonder if that is by design, in that during the big hiring spree from 1985-1991, most classes average age was between 28 to 32, with a much tighter spread of only about plus or minus 5 yrs. from the average.

That is why we see such a huge clump of guys now all around 55-65 in that colored dot chart. That's also why in about 5-10 years a whole bunch of guys (5 years worth of hiring) are all going to be hitting age 65. Maybe the company is trying to get a bigger spread so they don't run into another massive retirement bubble in 20 years?

Now would be a really good time to be hired...

at age 23!

But 57? Had he already retired from Delta?

I was close.... I knew I saw an early 30s in there! Just not the average

Im the baby in the group and ironically the most senior

First class since 2010, most senior, and youngest. Looks like you are set up for a Timbo kind of career! Congratulations.

Yep, I'm sure you are until you go down stairs to eat at the Flightline or whatever that restaurant is and your classmates allow you to go first and then someone goes all Timbo on you.

Sort of, there are a few 2010 hires that haven't even hit 30 yet. There is an 07 hire from 2007 that is 32, hired at 25.

Good question. Here is the table with just pilots in general.



There is a DTW 777 A that sits in top 500, hired at 23, only 52 now, 13 more years to go to hit a 42 year career.

Impressive.