Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
It's because your assuming these people are carreer aviation students that now have 1500 hours. In reality it's literally the same crowd that had 1200 hours back in 06 when you got hired but could never get selected or pass an interview. It's a motley crew of people who could never get on at a regional before this shortage provided them new opportunity.
Bingo, it's past the point of scraping the bottom of the barrel at the regionals. The majors probably have a few years of being picky and by then the next downturn will have hit to bail them out.