Originally Posted by
bozobigtop
Airlines are not the only business unable to recruit and retain employees. Many other industries have the same issues in which you can raise salaries to a point whereas the business is unprofitable and the company ceases to exist. If pilots think he or she can extract more money out of the powers that be, more power to you. Personally speaking its not going to happen! Many businesses are out of business because they refused to pay what employees demanded.
This. The companies can pay maybe a little more than they pay now. Maybe an extra $5k, possibly $10k, but just because 1500 hours is required now, doesn't mean that 1st-3rd year FO's are going to be getting anywhere close to $50-60k.
If the shortage is real, I bet they will downsize their fleets, and fly fewer flights of larger planes (requiring fewer total pilots), and pay *slightly* better pay, rather than paying good money to attract many pilots.