Originally Posted by
Mesabah
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Yesterday, I found out Endeavor is sitting on hundreds of qualified resumes of people they refuse to hire. I suspect that the pilot shortage isn't real, and that management is using the parking of the 50 seaters to staff the mainline size RJ's. When service gets cut to small cities, and the government gives management a blank check to solve the issue, what will it cost you?
Then I say call the bluff. There comes a point where they are going to have to exercise those options on those resumes or they expire... to analogize. I think the pilot shortage IS real at the regional level, just from the handful of folks at that level I have talked to. But to take your belief that it isn't, why should we pay for the return of those airplanes? As you believe, there are stacks of unopened resumes that they could then open and staff the airline for which we just paid. No... I'd rather let them play that hand. We pay nothing, and if they then open the hiring floodgates at the regionals, I say good luck getting those slots filled at $20K/year.
Not one red cent for this. Period. Like (Bar? I think) said, no reason to pay for something you don't have... (or something like that....)