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Israel just Punked Hezbollah a major way. Their fighters have been using a pager system they believed to be secure. 1,000 Pagers all just detonated at the same time. Epic!

Me laughing at Hezbollah getting their stuff blown off with explosives in pagers while reading this on an iPhone produced in China. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The oranges might be OK, but I’m not sure his balls are!

lol Skitzo! Valid

Delta is still conducting interviews. Although the talk has been 1000ish pilots in 2025, it'll most likely be somewhere around attrition numbers (~540). For everyone's sake, I hope that number is low. A buddy of mine just received a CJO last week and I've been waiting to start at Delta since I received my CJO back in April, fingers crossed I'll start in January since the last class (October) invite for 2024 went out. I would expect that they'll train most of the pilots in the first quarter, then training will slow, especially for the Summer and November/December months.

What a great story and video!! 🤣🤣🤣 Pager explosions kill Hezbollah fighters, wound thousands in Lebanon | Reuters Unclassified sources say it was a supply-chain attack by the Israelis. I can't wait to read the intel on this!

I can’t grasp your analysis, it seems at odds with itself (or I’m too dumb to understand). AA got rid of jets which is bad, there are less passengers (which means their fleet is right sized?), they’re overstaffed but if they hire less that’s bad. I’m confused. If there’s less passengers then wouldn't it be a smart decision to decrease fleet size so they aren’t paying for parked jets? Unless you’re saying they suck at competing which does seem true. I think AA needs a massive leadership shake up. Glad they fired Vasu, he clearly wanted AA to be king of ULCCs, which is fine if it’s profitable but that business model appears to be imploding. They read the room wrong post-Covid by dumping the 757 which would have filled the (planned future) role of the XLR very well. Curious if the 73 to PHX, 320 to ORD, 78 to LGA, etc. signals growth or simply shifting of existing personnel.

United plans to hire 1,700 in 2025, as per the Instructor/Evaluator meeting last week.

Sorry I don't know how calendars work. 2026, not 2025. I don't think any of the airlines are going to do a meaningful amount of hiring next year. I don't know the numbers at Delta or United, but American is absolutely overstaffed on pilots based on the number of planes we have and the passenger traffic. I think passenger traffic is going to decrease next year, not by some catastrophic amount, but it only takes a little to hit the airlines pretty hard. We have about 850 retirements next year. If we hire less than 500 pilots then I would consider that bad news. Less than 259, really bad news. I expect the really bad news. I couldn't put my finger on it because I'm not an industry analyst, but all year I've been hearing about how passenger traffic is higher than it's ever been, but it just *felt* slower. My scheduling strategy is pretty dependent on pilot manning, and this was the first year that felt like the pre-pandemic norm. Turns out you can still be overmanned during the biggest travel season in human history. AA really fucked itself when it got rid of all those airplanes in a panic during the pandemic. It was a dumb idea on its own, but it has turned into a catastrophic idea given Boeing an airbuses difficulty with delivering airplanes. It's entirely possible Delta and United and Southwest are in different spots because of their fleet size, but unless you believe Boeing is going to suddenly get their shit together and deliver dozens of airplanes per month, AA is in a jam. And none of that considers our heavy debt load. I think our executives are just praying for a massive rate cut cycle by the Fed. I tend to have a negative bias on these types of things, so take it for what it's worth. But you also have to remember we have by far the weakest executive team of the major airlines. I think the only thing they know how to do is imitate the other airlines poorly.

The best reel I've ever seen showing Kamala's lies and the media bias. Why wasn't she fact checked? Best Reel Ever.mp4

I love these hate on other platforms stories. I did 4 months in Afghanistan in Herks and we’d hate on C-17 and tankers for the same thing and didn’t call in anything or get AFCMS except the plane that came back with holes in it, but we assumed all of the other dumb platforms who don’t know what they are doing were. Like the C-17 on short final into Kandahar 5 miles in front of me yelling on the radio he was taking fire while I was staring at him on nogs seeing nothing. Everyone else that doesn’t fly what I fly is dumb!

Four more and he is an Ace.

It's ridiculous, and an engineering/economic disaster. That is all.