Originally Posted by
sulkair
But... I bet you'd be surprised at how fast legislation could be put in place to allow for 'whatever it takes' if the industry suddenly faced a very real and credible threat of grounding a large percent of the fleet for lack of crews. From a national security - economic - standpoint, the lawmakers could not, would not, allow such a paralysis to happen.
I don't think we will face a credible threat of grounding due to lack of crews. What the industry may face, is a shortage of applicants to terrible regional jobs. Not because the pilots aren't available, but rather because many refuse to work at such terrible places. And the regionals will be unable to staff their aircraft. This will result in required metrics not being met, & provide leverage to mainline pilot groups to bring large RJs back to mainline.