Originally Posted by
tom11011
Flow through sounds like a great idea, but what most fail to realize is there isn't anyone to attract. The best you can hope for is to maybe attract existing airline pilots from a few of the weaker carriers, likely 1 or 2 will fail this year. After that, there is nobody left to attract. There are no pilots in the training pipeline, nobody to attract, nobody to care.
Your not seeing the grand scheme here. Ultimately 50% of aag mainline new hire slots will forever goto eagle! now add 25% to psa and maybe 15% to pdt. Suddenly the only off the street hires will be interns military and the friends and family plan.
Delta and even maybe united follow suit and suddenly the guys not at the airlines with the flow are in huge trouble. They are going to do all they can to prop up the low cost regional market as long as they can. If airline management forces everyone in to the cradle to grave model, they can put off the shortage even longer. Keep the musical chairs going in their favor?