Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Agree completely. I also am planning my "cash out/get out" strategy. I'm in my upper 40's and in 5 years, this industry will be begging for pilots.....pleading for them.To keep me in this biz it's going to take A LOT of coin. Otherwise, by then I'll be in a position to make more doing something else and watch with glee as the airlines finally reap what they have sown for so long.
Two things. There will never be a pilot shortage at the major/legacy/UPS/FedEx level. They won't be begging you but someone just starting out.
In another post, you say the flying will ultimately be blended into the majors. I disagree. If you blend it in, there is no more whipsawing and cost savings. Sure there might be a return of the B scale but it would eventually be corrected just as AA's was. As long as the legacies continue to have scope eroded, management has no reason to do otherwise.