It’s a tough decision. I don’t blame you for getting your ducks in a row. Genuinely hope it works out for you!

Apreciate it!! :)

Makes complete sense to me .....especially for certain people (only a few years left to retire.....etc.). I assume if you went this route, it would only be if our doors shut? What is the commitment necessary to recieve the bonus anyway? Would kind of suck being on reserve forever as well!!!

Would leave for the big 4 now, regional only if doors start closing... As long as I don't have to commute I can do reserve, just not both. AFAIK bonus for 6months to a year on property. And still eligeble for flow after 2 years (supposedly, no guarantees ASO)

United and Southwest not hiring. Delta about to slow classes way down or pause hiring. No announcements at American, but guessing they follow.

United isn't hiring for 2 months, that's it. They haven't stopped the whole show.

American does this too. Usually one month in the summer and one month (Dec) in winter. They just don't announce it.

Delta has slowed; from crazy hiring to good hiring numbers.

Southwest? Single fleet issues and heard they have 500+ in the pool so yeah, they're treading water to figure out what to do I guess.

alarmist alarmist panic panic music stopping show is ending slowdowns pauses furloughs.
Stop

american just announced a huge airplane order - they have huge retirement numbers - they need pilots. United needs pilots, but of course they’ll pause due to lack of over 100 airplanes - thanks Boeing. Southwest will need pilots - but of course they’ll pause due to a lack of airplanes - thanks Boeing. Delta has said they were going to decrease to about 1000 hired this year, thay haven’t indicated anything different recently? those are still huge numbers. Why does everyone want to go into some sort of sky is falling mode. This is due to lack of airplanes once the airplane shortage is figured out, the pilot hiring will
begin again.

I doubt that 500 at sw stays in a pool when they cancelled their classes and said no more for the rest of the yr. Plus 500 in a pool sounds very high.

500 pilots is about 40 aircraft worth. They have 342 MAX 7s on order. The original certification date of the MAX 7 buyers were told to expect was 2022. Now nobody knows.

https://simpleflying.com/faa-no-spec...r%20reductions.

I'm sure SWA would like to hire all those people if they had their promised new aircraft.

Yes hiring has stopped for the year at Southwest, but United is still interviewing and hiring. They’re just not running new hire classes in May and June. A vacancy just came out three days ago with about 130+ upgrade vacancies and the new hire class starting on the 12th are also slated to have captain vacancies in their class drop.

The music has slowed a bit for now, but it has most certainly not stopped.