Another threat to legacy airline pilots jobs is continued outsourcing to code share partners and to contracted companies. Over the last ten years the legacy airlines have effectively sold their domestic business to the regionals.

Based upon past performance it seems a possibility that over the next decade the overseas routes could be sold out to companies with lower costs. Others have also suggested the same. The legacy carriers would effectively become travel agencies holding out to the lowest bidder over having to deal with constrictive and lengthy employee contracts.

My point is that no know one really knows what is going to happen. If you were to predict in 2000 what the industry looks like today it would have been dismissed as heresy. Lets all hope it is better. It could but what "better" is needs to also be defined. In the future there will most likely still be jets in the sky but who will be flying them and for how much?

Ten years ago top legacy airline pilots were bumping up against 300K.

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