Great Lakes Airlines is taking the drastic step of converting its 19-seat Beech 1900s into nine-seaters, enabling them to fly with a single pilot as a Part 135 carrier and thus cutting its pilot requirement in half.
Actually...having just read that article...it's clearly another endorsement by Bedford and the RAA. It's full of non facts and or course steers very wide around the actual reason the regionals can't attract pilots.
There are plenty of qualified pilots out there... The RAA's problem is they don't want the qualified ones, they want the unqualified ones.