Originally Posted by
CptGSXR
Regionals as the pathway to Majors?
If only I could be as equally deluded as people who think that. How many Majors are hiring regional guys and at what % of their class? Answer: few at a low %, in fact most of them that are hired are indeed flow threw. So if you don't have a flow threw, you are SoL. Maybe people that are new or corporate, or prior military believe that crap, but news flash: Age 65 has kept pilots in the right seat of RJs for past 5 years, and there was all the economic problems (housing stocks jobs) and even 9/11 before that.
The legacy carriers alone will need literally tens of thousands of pilots just to sustain current numbers over the next decade or two. Age 65, the 2008 recession, and 9/11 did stagnate the industry, you're right. It's been a bad decade. But that recipe has created the perfect storm to explode hiring starting about now. The pressure has been building, and the dam's about to open.
Someone had a post in the Major forums a while back asking if there were any automatic disqualifiers from getting hired, yes there is......work at a regional. Why on earth would they hire you for more $$ when you work for slave wages flying their aircraft and passengers and colors already?
Because an A330 with well paid pilots still makes more than a CRJ with poorly paid pilots. But I guess Delta just tosses any application they get as soon as they see it came from a regional.
