Bright Future For Young AA Pilots

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It's been what, ten years since AA (or TWA for that matter) hired pilots. The youngest AA pilots (including TWA staplees) have got to be late 30's, right? With AA having a relatively older pilot group, attrition by retirement is gonna provide some of these younger guys some very interesting careers. Does AA have the oldest mainline pax pilot group, or U.S Airways? Does anyone have post-65 projected retirement numbers for mainline airlines?
 
Counselor said:
It's been what, ten years since AA (or TWA for that matter) hired pilots. The youngest AA pilots (including TWA staplees) have got to be late 30's, right? With AA having a relatively older pilot group, attrition by retirement is gonna provide some of these younger guys some very interesting careers. Does AA have the oldest mainline pax pilot group, or U.S Airways? Does anyone have post-65 projected retirement numbers for mainline airlines?
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frog_flyer said:
All I know is that the young guys in the first few new-hire classes at AA are SET.
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...oh, to be younger!
 
I think its a fight between AA, CAL, and Us Airways for the oldest. Northwest was relatively senior as well. Delta has been known as having a relatively junior pilot group. Only a couple hundred pilots are over 55 or something like that.
 
Trip7 said:
I think its a fight between AA, CAL, and Us Airways for the oldest. Northwest was relatively senior as well. Delta has been known as having a relatively junior pilot group. Only a couple hundred pilots are over 55 or something like that.
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Fixed it for ya....'cause I suspect this is what you really meant.
 
Trip7 said:
I think its a fight between AA, CAL, and Us Airways for the oldest. Northwest was relatively senior as well. Delta has been known as having a relatively junior pilot group. Only a couple hundred pilots are over 55 or something like that.
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CAL? No way.

American, United and US Airways going to be the places to be come the next boom. Continental is too young. Average age there is in the low 40's. US Airways is 55, American is up there and UAL isn't too far behind.
 
CAL is either very young or very old. 25% of the pilots have been hired since 9/11. There is not much middle ground. There will be almost 500 pilots retiring per year starting in 2013.
 
nah.. they'll just change it to age 70 in 2013 to prevent a pilot shortage.. we don't need to upgrade anyway, at least I don't.. high rollin on my $38hr..:sarcasm:
 
OldTownPilot said:
CAL is either very young or very old. 25% of the pilots have been hired since 9/11. There is not much middle ground. There will be almost 200 pilots retiring per year starting in 2013.
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Thats what it should be. looking back on the numbers nearly 500 retired from the year that everyone freaked out about pensions. It was late, I was tired and I grabbed the wrong number from my head. Sorry about that. The following is the schedule assuming that everyone punches out at 65. There are 4900 people on the list.

2013 118
2014 163
2015 170
2016 193
2017 199
2018 175
2019 191
2020 169
2021 186
2022 178
2023 184
2024 153
 
Will American even be able to hire as many as they lose? Does anyone else see the following scenario happening in about 5-10 years? Airlines will be snatching pilots from the regionals so fast that they will dry up. No one is training to be a pilot right now so the majors will FINALLY put all regional jet flying back to mainline and then the scary part........ Ab initio boys and girls.yep, hiring from zero hours like they used to do and putting them right through training into the majors.
 
pilotlight said:
Will American even be able to hire as many as they lose? Does anyone else see the following scenario happening in about 5-10 years? Airlines will be snatching pilots from the regionals so fast that they will dry up. No one is training to be a pilot right now so the majors will FINALLY put all regional jet flying back to mainline and then the scary part........ Ab initio boys and girls.yep, hiring from zero hours like they used to do and putting them right through training into the majors.
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When the airlines start to hire again and the economy starts gaining some momentum people will start training again.
 
OldTownPilot said:
Thats what it should be. looking back on the numbers nearly 500 retired from the year that everyone freaked out about pensions. It was late, I was tired and I grabbed the wrong number from my head. Sorry about that. The following is the schedule assuming that everyone punches out at 65. There are 4900 people on the list.

2013 118
2014 163
2015 170
2016 193
2017 199
2018 175
2019 191
2020 169
2021 186
2022 178
2023 184
2024 153
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Dang it starts in 2013. Thats completely useless when it all ends in 2012. Nothing to look forward to expect a complete financial collapse, martial law, nuclear war, and the End of Days. Yea...........
 
Trip7 said:
Dang it starts in 2013. Thats completely useless when it all ends in 2012. Nothing to look forward to expect a complete financial collapse, martial law, nuclear war, and the End of Days. Yea...........
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No kidding. Can't wait to hear the election speeches that year. Doesn't sound like they'd differ much from the previous ones, though. :)
 
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