Originally Posted by bluefishbeagle

This article is bull**** and ignores the facts. There are stacks of resumes on the desks of every airline. There is a shortage of qualified pilots but not pilots. Many qualified pilots are leaving Part 121 jobs if not aviation altogether because of pay issues and working conditions.

Regionals in particular hire only inexperienced robots who will drink their cool aid and push regs and FAR's to what ever limit the company wants. The result is going to be more incidents like flight 4712 MSP-TVC. On that flight nobody on board had the experience to make the decision to go to their alternate or not depart MSP at all.