Gunfighter

I've been speaking right hand french for several years. I'm ready to learn the left hand version with the taxi lessons added in. At least when I get doxxed by the AE results, it will be buried in with 47+ other awards.

The three times I've been NYC WBB, I've loved the flying and hated the commute. Commuting to NYC reserve is an expensive price to pay for flying with my favorite A. Is it bad that I'm already planning my NYC exit strategy before even finding out the AE results?

chrisreedrules

I think you’re going to be sorely disappointed. There is very little support for age 67 within DALPA and the demographics of the pilot group do not support collective bargaining in favor of the 65-67 aged pilots. Collective being the operative verbiage.

Most of us aren’t against increasing the mandatory retirement age. We just want to see it accomplished scientifically. Studies should be conducted. Maybe the mandatory age should be 70? But how would we know without the data? What is being called for is akin to going flying without a flight plan and not checking any Wx or NOTAMs. We are pilots. We make fact-based decisions rooted in logic. The very premise of this whole argument is contrarian to that. And why now? Where were all of you when they were raising the retirement age to 65? Why weren’t you advocating for age 67 then?

Gunfighter

The last AE had 61 WB A with 35 in NYC and the plug dropped roughly 500 numbers.

This time we have 94 WB A with 47 NYC. I think the plug will drop another 500-800 numbers on this AE.

I'll make the first WBA plug guess at 5,123

m3113n1a1

That sounds plausible.. What about NB A? 14k?

The Localizer

Couple obvservations on the 330 flying. 82 nyc 330A is a ton of movemnet between this ae and last months. For DTW 18 slots considering the size of the base is also creating movement. However, summer season for WB typicaly starts end of march why have they not added hardly any FO on the widebody fleets over the last couple AE? I had heard some of the 330 FO bases were almost 70-80 pilots short for summer 2024, when do they plan on adding these pilots is what i wonder.

CBreezy

You don't need additions to fill slots. It's likely that WBA will create a cascade of movement allowing for backfills in the WBB

The Localizer

it might fill slots with backfills but if the category itself is way short that requires new slots.

KSCessnaDriver

NB A where? It's already been down into 14.5K for so for the last 2 AEs. Did you mean 15k?

StoneQOLdCrazy

I think that's grossly inaccurate.

Trip7

​​​​​​I think it hits 5000 for sure. I'm going with 5200