Age

[no1pilot2000]

What is the average age of a first officer and captain at a company such as AirTran or Southwest?

 

[Flybywire44]

They just call you out of the pool?

 

[27 driver]

At Airtran I would guess about 35 to 37 for both. Just a guess though. I haven't done the math.

 

[Green Banana]

Old enough to know better.

 

[MILPILOT17]

What is the average age of a first officer and captain at a company such as AirTran or Southwest?[/QUOTE


I posted a couple of charts for SWA, but they didn't appear correctly; I'll try and do it manually when I have the time.

 

[no1pilot2000]

I flew on a SWA from BWI to PVD years ago and noticed how young the first officer was. It looked like he was barely out of college. The captain was in her 40's. I took a Air Tran flight from BWI to BOS a few years ago and the captain looked like he had one foot in the grave.

 

[MILPILOT17]

Here are some age/numbers for SWA:

Captains First Officers
20's 0 20's 17
30's 59 30's 1218
40's 1312 40's 1423
50's 1301 50's 322
60's 246 60's 22

 

[MILPILOT17]

Sorry about the clutter, but I can't get the columns to stay aligned when I save the post. Maybe you can still make sense of it?

 

[LearLove]

Here are some age/numbers for SWA:

Captains First Officers
20's 0 20's 17
30's 59 30's 1218
40's 1312 40's 1423
50's 1301 50's 322
60's 246 60's 22

just for kicks here is an estimate of what that chart looks like at US Air east.

CA/FO (about 3500 total pilots, east)

20's - 0/0
30's - 0/50
40's - 50/500
50's - 1250/1350
60's - 200/100

 

[EMBpilot]

Yeap, those 40 year old Captains are not going anywhere for the next 25 years.
SWA and other lcc's that exploded since 2001 would be a great place to make a career as a .... first officer.