Southwest Suspending hiring through 2024....

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

The 73 won’t leave path if it’s +10kts over and continues to accelerate? The 75/76 will go into VNAV SPD if the speed continues to creep up. Doesn’t help either that both like to fly fast and will be well past the VNAV speed if you don’t keep an eye on it.

Same. It's just sometimes you can be on path, but the speed creeps and touches +10 and now it's a 'drag required' message.

 

[///AMG]

Same. It's just sometimes you can be on path, but the speed creeps and touches +10 and now it's a 'drag required' message.

I really nerded out just now because not knowing the answer bothered me. I've seen this a bunch too.....fully on path, but speed creeping up. According to the book, above "about" +10 knots, we will also get VNAV SPD reversion. But I think we are talking about like exactly at the limit, when (also according to the book) "unexpected tailwinds are forcing an increase in airspeed to maintain path". It seems like it will eventually accept a high/above path situation if not corrected (in a scenario that is more than fleeting), rather than continue to accelerate and revert, provided there isn't an altitude constraint it can't make if it doesn't. At least I think that aligns with what I've seen. I'm slightly proud of myself for finding the random subsection of the subchapter of the System Handbook that talks about this though.

 

[Sculprit]

There’s chatter going around that tulip air is suspending hiring in May and June due to lack of deliveries.

 

[turbojet28]

There’s chatter going around that tulip air is suspending hiring in May and June due to lack of deliveries.

Would seem to make sense based on the updated 10-K guidance from last week. Don’t need 50 new hires per week when you’re getting a fraction of the aircraft you had planned.

 

[Inverted]

There is no way UAL keeps hiring the same.

 

[nocturnalaviator]

Another DL pilot saves the day


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/1b2ocjh/my_husband_got_stuck_in_a_delta_airplane_bathroom/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

$20 the guy on the inside was pulling too thinking the door folded in.

Jerry: Tia, did you see all the flowers in that bathroom? It's like an English garden in there.

Attendant: They're gardenias, mostly.

Jerry: I thought I smelled lilac.

Attendant: Yes, there are a few of those, too...

 

[Inverted]

Errmahgurd the music is stoppinggggggggggggggg it's like COVID 9/11

United Airlines Update on Pilot Hiring - Aero Crew News

Aero Crew News has learned from Marc Champion, VP Flight Operations and Kirk Limacher, VP Flight Ops Planning and Development at United, that due to continued new aircraft certification and manufacturing delays at Boeing, the airline will slow the pace of new-pilot hires, which includes the...

aerocrewnews.com

 

[tcco94]

BUCKLE UP

TODD WILL BE BACK ON THE FORUMS IN NO TIME

 

[roundout]

Errmahgurd the music is stoppinggggggggggggggg it's like COVID 9/11

United Airlines Update on Pilot Hiring - Aero Crew News

Aero Crew News has learned from Marc Champion, VP Flight Operations and Kirk Limacher, VP Flight Ops Planning and Development at United, that due to continued new aircraft certification and manufacturing delays at Boeing, the airline will slow the pace of new-pilot hires, which includes the...

aerocrewnews.com

I don’t think 2 months of hiring = 102 airframes not coming, just sayin.

 

[scooter2525]

Errmahgurd the music is stoppinggggggggggggggg it's like COVID 9/11

United Airlines Update on Pilot Hiring - Aero Crew News

Aero Crew News has learned from Marc Champion, VP Flight Operations and Kirk Limacher, VP Flight Ops Planning and Development at United, that due to continued new aircraft certification and manufacturing delays at Boeing, the airline will slow the pace of new-pilot hires, which includes the...

aerocrewnews.com

 

[roundout]

 

[MikeD]

“Participants in United Aviate and United Military Pilot Program will remain at the top of hiring priorities.”

Copy. So no reduction in the mass of Varney call signs jamming up everywhere in central and southern AZ.

 

[FlyinSol0]

Errmahgurd the music is stoppinggggggggggggggg it's like COVID 9/11

United Airlines Update on Pilot Hiring - Aero Crew News

Aero Crew News has learned from Marc Champion, VP Flight Operations and Kirk Limacher, VP Flight Ops Planning and Development at United, that due to continued new aircraft certification and manufacturing delays at Boeing, the airline will slow the pace of new-pilot hires, which includes the...

aerocrewnews.com

In case anyone only read the title, it’s not just UAL;

“American Airlines hired about 2,000 pilots last year and expects to add around 1,300 this year, CEO Robert Isom said at an investor presentation in New York on Monday.

“That’s slowing down a little bit, but ... we have a considerable number of retirements,” he said. “We will be hiring for the foreseeable future at levels like that.””

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

In case anyone only read the title, it’s not just UAL;

“American Airlines hired about 2,000 pilots last year and expects to add around 1,300 this year, CEO Robert Isom said at an investor presentation in New York on Monday.

“That’s slowing down a little bit, but ... we have a considerable number of retirements,” he said. “We will be hiring for the foreseeable future at levels like that.””

Pretty sure 1300 is more than any year prior to COVID, or at least close to the record, for AA. The horror!

 

[Roger Roger]

Pretty sure 1300 is more than any year prior to COVID, or at least close to the record, for AA. The horror!

Don’t y’all have just ludicrous numbers of retirements coming?

 

[tcco94]

Don’t y’all have just ludicrous numbers of retirements coming?

AA leads the airlines. Then UA then DL.

 

[Kingairer]

Don’t y’all have just ludicrous numbers of retirements coming?

I wouldn’t say that. I think we are on a similar level to the other 2.

 

[CFIT99]

AA leads the airlines. Then UA then DL.

for perspective...I've been on property at AA for 1.7 years and have ~3100 pilots below me already...no signs of slowing down...fingers crossed

 

[ERfly]

In case anyone only read the title, it’s not just UAL;

“American Airlines hired about 2,000 pilots last year and expects to add around 1,300 this year, CEO Robert Isom said at an investor presentation in New York on Monday.

“That’s slowing down a little bit, but ... we have a considerable number of retirements,” he said. “We will be hiring for the foreseeable future at levels like that.””

"I don't see the airlines ever losing money again."
-Little Napoleon's Predecessor

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Don’t y’all have just ludicrous numbers of retirements coming?

A lot have already happened, but these are the current numbers:

We'll maybe grow to 16k pilots, give or take, so losing 3-5% of the pilots for the next 10 years and about 2-3% a year after that. We have hired a lot of older pilots, so lots of those guys won't be retiring at the top, either.