Originally Posted by
lolwut
Sounds like a bunch of airplanes that were going to be parked anyways.
I wonder if Pinnacle, Comair, etc can all blame their airplane parkings, retroactively, on the pilot shortage too.
Correct me if I am mistaken, but isn't Pinnacle(Endeavor) parking all 140 CRJ's this year or next while only taking 40 larger CRJ's as replacements?
When I do the math, that works out to about 1000 pilots on the street.
Unless I am simply misiniformed about the status of those 140 50 seaters, that sounds more like a short term glut of pilots , rather than a shortage. (when they start parking them)