Originally Posted by
Flybynight42
Devil's Advocate: Aren't there 3 legacy carriers that have 10,000 applicants to divvy up, each wanting to hire several hundred a year? With several hundred retiring each year? Oh, plus SWA, Jet Blue, Spirit, Frontier, the fractionals and foreign carriers?
And despite all this, we maintain our 10,000 pilot applicant pool. So new people keep applying, etc. I'll bet we are adding people to the pool of applicants at the same rate or greater that we remove them from interviews.
United, AA, Delta, SWA won't have pilot shortages. It will be the other airlines.
Pilots don't decide where to go based on 1st year pay. They look at the overall picture.