Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
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.
You're right, long term things may get better. My window is very small, like the next 3 years, so those retirements probably won't affect me. Not to derail this thread into something about myself so yes we should probably care about this but most regional pilots won't and I don't blame them. We're already working for 15th tier wages, the foreign carrier thing may actually help.