Originally Posted by
Bzzt
1500/5=300 pilots per year
300 is .017% of the roughly 17000 regional pilots in the US.
1.7% /yr, and that's just the average over 5 years for American excluding US Airways. Add in the hiring by all the other US based airlines, plus foreign jobs... it's going to be one of the better decades to be a regional guy looking to get out than we've had in awhile.