Originally Posted by LAXtoDEN

If you’re hired at United today you’d retire at a higher number than AA (by a LOT) and now even Delta with all the hiring we’ve done since 2014 at Delta. You read that correctly, you will now retire more senior at Delta compared to United.

United hiring knows this and right around the time new hires with multiple offers started to figure that out followed by the fact United has already hired enough pilots to cover their retirements for the next decade suddenly “rumors” from “TK” claimed 26,000 pilots. I guess they realized nobody believed that number because it was so far fetched they decided 20,000 seems more realistic.

I’ll bet 18,000 pilots by 2030 for each of the big 3. All 3 are hiring 200+ a month. So yeah you missed the train with United, but don’t expect United pilots to tell you that as they want bodies behind them to save themselves from potential furlough.

Originally Posted by kman

can you please show your data and how you did your math? Thanks!

Originally Posted by pilotfly2u

More senior at delta if hired today?

Originally Posted by 11atsomto

The train may never come to Chicago with the Blue and Yellow which make Green combined carrier........and If it does it may only be like a monorail.......

and that may be a very nice monorail too.......its your call ........

Originally Posted by Voski

Surprisingly, they’ve kept their pace of hitting 2,500/pilots per year over the past 2 years. Anyone know what they’re projecting for 2025, same rate of ~200/month?

Originally Posted by LAXtoDEN

The retirements graph was posted two pages back guys. Reference post #75.

Originally Posted by Furloughedboi

I believe planning expects to hire to get our seniority list to grow to >25k pilots, and at least for this and next year 2k each.

Originally Posted by Voski

Surprisingly, they’ve kept their pace of hitting 2,500/pilots per year over the past 2 years. Anyone know what they’re projecting for 2025, same rate of ~200/month?

Originally Posted by RippinClapBombs

They might want to tell United’s recruiting team. I attended a career fair in the early spring. United’s presentation on future growth and hiring was not even close to >25k pilots. After 2024 hiring will be focused on their Aviate academy.

Originally Posted by DarkSideMoon

I would trust ZS/planning over the recruiting team.

that being said I think both numbers are far too optimistic. I think they’re really planning on 25k+ but I don’t think reality will match that.