pilot shortage- big laugh!
Good- As I read all these posting about there being CFI shortage, I am finally excited that pilot wages might go up. Pilots are a dime a dozen and unless there truly is a shortage of regional pilots then wages and QOL will continue to get worse. There are so many flight schools out there pumping low time pilots into industry that all airlines realized that they can cut pay and QOL down to the bone because they realize there are 100 more pilots behind them willing to take the job for less pay. Regional are not lowering mins because there is a true shortage, they are lowering the mins because those are the pilots willing to take less pay for more work. Airlines are making pilots dance to there tune and we continue to dance and drink all there Kool Aid. Lets pretend there is a pilot shortage, that would be good too if some of the crappy regional that treat their pilot horrible went of of business sent the message out to the others that they need to take care of there employees or else they may be next. There is no pilot shortage right now. I watch majors turning away qualified pilots by the dozens and low timers are lining up to take a job whomever thay can get a job with. Disagree or not, that is just what I see going on in the industry.