Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
As a German friend once explained to me, the untranslatable
schadenfreude is "like watching a brand new Mercedes have a head-on collision with a brand new BMW".
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Airline management has been asleep at the wheel and it's now catching up with them. All the airlines (and ALPA/APA/IBT, etc) now facing huge retirements have known from the moment a pilot was hired when he'd retire; they took no steps to head it off (increasing the age to 65 is irrelevant as 67 would be). The brewing storm was a known phenomenon.
They'll find a way to fill the seats but watching them squirm and scramble is entertaining.