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Major Airline Retirements in the next 5 and 10 years?

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Propsfullfwd

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Will a pilot from the following companies share some information one the amount of retirements over the next 5 and 10 years. Or if someone who has Airinc. and has the numbers for all of these companies will please post. I read on here that half of Continentals pilots are going to retire by 2014. I'm looking for United, Delta, SWA, American, Alaska, Fedex, UPS, Northwest, US Airways, Astar, ABX Air, Airtran, AmericaWest, Frontier, and JetBlue. Any information on these would be nice.

Thanks,
Props
 
Year Retirements
2005 229
2006 316
2007 352
2008 458
2009 461
2010 399 Total 2215

2011 340
2012 329
2013 405
2014 494
2015 584 Total 2152

2016 643
2017 692
2018 739
2019 736
2020 750 Total 3560

We have also lost roughly 43 in the past 5 months.

Early retirments
Medical
Quit
Fired


Hope this helps

AA
 
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NORTHWEST AIRLINES
RETIREMENTS

2005 228
2006 166
2007 227
2008 197
2009 226
2010 228
2011 239
2012 253
2013 276
2014 317
2015 324
2016 370
2017 336
2018 301
2019 287
2020 274
2021 222
2022 216
2023 207
2024 209
2025 203
2026 176
2027 151
2028 102
 
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Excuse me...But all these numbers are inaccurate if the age 60 rail roading continues to roll along.

Beyond age 60 is fine....IN THR RIGHT SEAT!
 
Thanks for the posts so far. And if the age goes to 67 or whatever it may be then I can ask again. The reason I was asking this was to help me make a more informed decision on wheather or not to jump from one regional to another for better pay. And for Mr. Bus if you have the Data on United will you please share. These are just numbers to me and alot of things change from day to day. I have also heard somewhere that up to 1/3 of all pilots medical out before 60.

Thanks again,
Props
 
Props,

It is hard to say, for instance the age 60 rule would change the numbers, however any changes to the lump sum DB plan would cause a huge spike in retirements here at AA.

I would say you could average another 60-100 a year in unexpected losses.
from deaths (outside of work) to medicals being lost, disability, some will just quit, fired, etc.

I am sure you have heard the grass always looks greener, good luck to you.

AA

P.S. There will be a few pilots that when recalled will not come back as they are now flying with other comopanies.
 

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