Originally Posted by
Bzzt
There are not many average joes getting hired right now and who knows when or if that will ever change. The military is facing drastic cuts in funding now so we're about to see an influx of military pilots.
Hiring has just begun... and there is an obscene amount of retirements in the next 10 years. The regionals can't fill classes, hence the desperation moves lately by them to put one last breath in the model. That has failed (much to your shortsighted chagrin), so I think you'll start seeing some improvements and at the very least increased mainline capacity and siphoning jobs off of the regionals. That is already happening in the DL system. More high paying jobs and less low paying jobs are good things.