Originally Posted by
Slick111
Two thoughts:
1) The link, in the original post, was to a press release from Embry Riddle. The media contact is listed as
[email protected]. You could always send Mr. Roddey an email and ask him if he is willing to divulge the findings of this star-studded "board of inquiry" and ask what measures the airlines are likely to take in order to deal with the "pilot supply" issue, (hint: don't expect any of those measures to include a substantial pay increase,.....because it was pre-determined that pay is not a factor in the "pilot supply" conundrum).
And
2) If you get a response, at all from the ERAU media contact, it's likely to tell you to mind your own business because the findings of this particular Star Chamber are proprietary and double top-secret and that findings are disseminated on a "need to know" basis,........ (and you don't "need to know"!). If this brain trust wanted us to know what they talked about, they would have allowed media personnel to attend the event. You could always threaten to file a request under the "freedom of information act" since the event allegedly include public officials from the Whitehouse and the FAA, but I don't think that would initially scare the powerful media arm of Humpty Diddle Aeronautical University.
Lolz. I'm very much a "pilot shortage" junkie for many years now, read and save everything I can find. I'm not normally a conspiracy theory guy, but this has simply been too good to be an accident for A4A, for many years now. The majors are hiring pilots from the regionals and low-cost-carriers at 3000/year as every other source of pilots is drying up. Smaller airlines will shrink to insignificance, large cities will lose air service, Congress will bravely allow airlines to use less qualified pilots and use them far more hours, to "save the country". This is a wet dream for the three remaining majors, and they certainly knew all this was coming long ago when they were insisting there would not be a shortage.