1261 days to go!

[Whataburger]

Mmmmm. Cake! Lots of it!

 

[ALGFLYR]

206!!!

 

[Whataburger]

205!!

 

[MG386]

Saw cake in the crew lounge yesterday and was immediately overjoyed by the thought of a retirement only to learn that it was for some find of flight attendant performance metric. Damn! The funny part was that every pilot that came in and saw the cake had the same reaction. Looking forward to eating some retirement cake in December.

Yummy cake!

 

[tubineotter]

Out of the way bringing it to the top, cake anyone?

 

[TriStar_drvr]

204!!

 

[SIG600]

Is there really any reason to be excited anymore? Sure 65 is coming, but no one is even maintaining size to cover attrition. Growth at any major seems to be a crack pipe dream.

 

[Sherpa]

Yeah but there's the whole cake thing, I mean it's free...

Attrition is a good thing.

 

[Flyer1015]

Is there really any reason to be excited anymore? Sure 65 is coming, but no one is even maintaining size to cover attrition. Growth at any major seems to be a crack pipe dream.

Agreed. It's like the Obama's 2008 Hope and Change everybody believed in, and 3 years later, all hope was deflated. In terms of Age 65, I wouldn't hold my breath for Dec 2012..... Or beyond for that matter..... Yet.

 

[tubineotter]

If you are just a few numbers from upgrade that's all the numbers I need to celebrate, I have been stuck on ********************ty pay scale for the past five years cause of this new law so the soon the better, I keep counting the day till my seniority based pay scale job resumes! oh yeah and free cake, well it really wasn't that free I guess. Bitterness over for today.

 

[Whataburger]

203!!

 

[fly4surf]

Capt I flew with just called to say goodbye, retiring early, planned on sixty.

Have a great retirement enjoying the fruits of a successful career.

 

[LoneStarFlyer]

Wow, folks must have gone to bed early, so I'll take the late shot...

202!!!

 

[ALGFLYR]

201!!!

 

[Andy]

Is there really any reason to be excited anymore? Sure 65 is coming, but no one is even maintaining size to cover attrition. Growth at any major seems to be a crack pipe dream.

After this summer's over, United plans to crank up off the street hiring. United/Continental will be retiring ~40 pilots/month indefinitely.