Originally Posted by
amcnd
Doubt it UA was looking into a "flow" program until they realized they had 5000 apps on file.. The majors will never have a problem with so call "mythical" shortage...
This. There is no pilot shortage. There are regional airlines that can't get people to invest $100K for a $22K job.
The legacy carriers will never have a shortage of applicants. There will always be plenty of well connected regional pilots, and retiring military pilots to fill those spots.
But if they do, they will simply go to ab-initio training like all the other major carriers of the world. Most current regional pilots need to start accepting that they will never get that coveted mainline job.