Originally Posted by
Bzzt
1500/5=300 pilots per year
300 is .017% of the roughly 17000 regional pilots in the US. Good luck with your lottery ticket.
As to the people having good careers in aviation that's all relative. I've said it before I'm 30 years old and even that is too old for the type of airline career I wanted. Flying with 14 days off the rest of my career is not ideal no matter the monetary value of my hours flown. My goal was to doze for dollars in the right seat with 21 days off a month and realistically that's not attainable unless you get hired very young and at the beginning of a wave.
This announcement is not "bad" news but it isn't good either, this is certainly no shortage.
The career as you described it no longer exists. pilots at all carriers, even the "good" ones, work more, earn less, and have less job security than their forefathers before them.