Originally Posted by
gloopy
Dumb article. Legacy airlines will always always always have first pick of applicants over any and all LCC's in almost every case. Including applicants at the LCC's themselves. And transferring capacity to mainline only results in a few super small markets closing. Markets in which LCC's don't serve anyway. Legacy airlines could shut down any LCC they wanted to just with targeted hiring if necessary. Advantage: legacy airlines. Big time.
I could be wrong, but I took the author to mean that Legacy airlines were exposed to the risk of shortage due to their regional feed. When Connection/Express carriers can't attract applicants, Legacy passengers will be affected. I don't think the author of the article was saying that mainline carriers will directly experience a shortage of applicants. LCCs are exposed to less risk due to the fact that they operate all of their own flights and don't have to worry about regional partners staffing their flights.