Originally Posted by
Around123
Will mainline keep hiring regional pilots if regional flights are being canceled do to lack of crews?
If new pilot numbers don't meet retirement numbers is it more likely capacity cuts will happen at regionals or mainline?
In the future is it likely mainline will hire more 135, ACMI, and military pilots to prevent canceled flights at regionals?
With all the new regional aircraft orders, manufacture investing in new regional jets for the future and current companies asking for pay cuts, it looks like they have a plan.
IMO, follow the $$$'s and there in lies your answer. The "companies plan" is to fight tooth and nail in order to maintain their 40% or greater profit margin, whatever it takes is fine by them. Mainline will do what is cheapest while walking the tightrope of unionized contractual "speed bumps". Companies r interested in the macro, unlike pilots who view the business world through a straw.