LEANING to leave AA for DAL

Reply Subscribe

Page 11 of 24

« First

Last »

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

08-05-2024, 06:59 AM

#101

GrayFlyer

Line Holder

Joined APC: Feb 2019

Posts: 77

Quote:

Originally Posted by airplanes

Looking at hiring slowdowns and the stock market today, I don’t think giving up seniority anywhere is a great decision unless there’s some pretty severe extenuating circumstances.

"Anywhere" is a strong word. NK? B6 West Coast based? Pretty sure those are not great places to be right now.

08-05-2024, 01:32 PM

#102

Archiee

Line Holder

Joined APC: Jul 2024

Posts: 51

Given the economic data the last week I wouldn't leave anywhere to go anywhere.

08-05-2024, 02:27 PM

#103

Cachaco

CHILLAX

Joined APC: Dec 2023

Posts: 118

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archiee

Given the economic data the last week I wouldn't leave anywhere to go anywhere.

This. Especially if already at the big three plus Southwest.

08-05-2024, 02:56 PM

#104

ImSoSuss

Gets Weekends Off

Joined APC: Mar 2021

Posts: 1,733

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cachaco

This. Especially if already at the big three plus Southwest.

It was fun while it lasted. For years people will be looking back at these ridiculous threads wondering what it was like to be in the industry when it was so good.

Last edited by ImSoSuss; 08-05-2024 at 03:31 PM.

08-05-2024, 03:29 PM

#105

Dunkin

Gets Weekends Off

Joined APC: Aug 2014

Posts: 530

Quote:

Originally Posted by ImSoSuss

It was fun while it lasted. For years people will be looking back at these rediculous threads wondering what it was like to be in the industry when it was so good.

We will never see a hiring run like we did from mid 2021-early 2024 again in our lifetime. It was the best of times.

08-05-2024, 04:21 PM

#106

Archiee

Line Holder

Joined APC: Jul 2024

Posts: 51

I can't imagine how bad it will be to have to fly with bitter gen zers who will be stuck as lga reserve f/os for a decade.

08-05-2024, 04:52 PM

#107

APCbot

Gets Weekends Off

Joined APC: Mar 2020

Posts: 259

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dunkin

We will never see a hiring run like we did from mid 2021-early 2024 again in our lifetime. It was the best of times.

You would think, by now, with everything we've seen, people would have learned not to say "never".

But here we are.

08-05-2024, 05:11 PM

#108

ImSoSuss

Gets Weekends Off

Joined APC: Mar 2021

Posts: 1,733

Quote:

Originally Posted by APCbot

You would think, by now, with everything we've seen, people would have learned not to say "never".

But here we are.

Well, I'm pretty confident that it won’t happen in our lifetimes at least. Unless you can think of some mechanism occurring again which creates a bell curve of age distribution to create a wave of mass retirements between all the big airlines at the same time. And right when that starts, introduce a black swan event where you offer a lot of early outs reducing pilot staffing even more. Then have the recovery from said black swan event occur faster than anybody in their wildest dreams could have imagined in the midst of the mass retirements. All of this combined creating the greatest ~2.5 years of airline hiring the planet has ever seen.

Yeah, I am pretty confident we won’t see those 2.5 years level of hiring ever again.

08-08-2024, 06:09 AM

#109

Chimpy

Gets Weekends Off

Joined APC: Nov 2015

Posts: 1,514

Quote:

Originally Posted by PNWFlyer

musical chairs is not a game that airline pilots or even air line pilots often win.

Unfortunately for those of us like myself at NK (been here 12 years) a lot of us are doing just that (UAL, AA, DAL)... (21 years left for myself). Talk about the frusteration of watching thousands of low time RJ F/Os get hired while we all sat, fat dumb & happy thinking the JB Merger was going to go through, lol. I feel myself getting bitter like that guy (SkyHigh), who remembers him....