Originally Posted by
horrido27
There will never be a shortage of qualified pilots. I know dozens of "qualified pilots".. just not dozen of guys willing to work for peanuts and poor workrules.
By shifting from 50s to more 76s on the Delta Side, they have given their DCI carriers an extension with regards to pilot numbers.
On top of that, allowing your (Delta) reserves to work more during the busy summer months, you have helped the company with regards to staffing.
Anyone wanna bet that Delta Does NOT Hire this year?
And when do those 717's show up? sometime in 2013?
Motch
Respectfully Motch I'd like to throw this out. First, I don't believe there are as many dequal guys out there as many predict. People look at ATP numbers and assume most of them are really airline pilots. Not a majority of them are "airline pilots" as we know them. Most dequalled for a reason and left the job for a variety of reasons. The most unfortunate were forced out through tragic circumstances, mergers or furloughs and never recovered.
Second, imagine how much it will cost an airline to bring them back to life and be safe at a place like LAX or ORD. Imagine the sim hours, IOE and safety risk management. It's much steeper than one can envision being an active line guy. I think the airlines will be reluctant to tap that labor pool and will gobble up the active guys well before they even approAch this challenge.