Originally Posted by globalexpress

OMG Bryan Bedford. You're a moron. YOU and your ilk are the reason why young people don't enter this profession. You and your airline management peers have spent the past DECADE treating your pilots like crap and you wonder why we aren't telling our kids to become airline pilots?

And the US is like China and India that we don't have the infrastructure to train pilots? Really? You're comparing the US training capacity to countries that still have a foot in the third world pool? You do realize that we have PLENTY of capacity here in the US to train pilots, don't you? In fact, it's being utilized by OTHER COUNTRIES to train THEIR pilots instead of ours. Apparently young people in THEIR countries are provided with the proper incentives to become pilots. I bet they make more than $20K/year, too.

We HAVE HAD the training infrastructure to create enough pilots to cover retirements for the PAST FEW DECADES. It would be really easy to get that kickin' again but we're missing an important piece of the "pilot making" puzzle.....THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO ENTER THIS PROFESSION.

Instead of blaming your recruiting problems on regulations that you knew were coming YEARS AGO, take a look in the mirror. I'm sure there are at least several hundred pilots, if not a few thousand, working overseas, working in non-aviation jobs, etc., that would LOVE to come work for the US regional airlines, maybe even yours. BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY THEM. And a new contract that pays your entry level pilots a WHOPPING $30 grand a year ain't going to cut it.

May God bless you with a clue, Bryan Bedford.