Originally Posted by
FlyingV
So if ATP is going to keep instructors for 1500 hours while not enrolling anybody and increasing prices, RAH is gonna have to fill 50 jets with pilots, and AMR is retiring hundreds of pilots every year for the foreseeable future, how the **** is there any chance that there would be another crap contract? I understand that this opens the door for more mainline flying to go to a low compensation regional, but I would like to think that this gives pilots some leverage. Am I totally off?
Plus, that is one ugly paint job.
Yes you are off. There is absolutely NO pilot shortage. When a decent job comes up, pilots will come out from the woodwork to take it. Rah is not decent, sub par at best.