Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Spanking ?
Well, ANNOUNCEMENTS aren't spankings, my misguided friend.
Even WITH a bombshell announcement occurring which you imply as imminent, unless you can fuel your engine with 50 pilots of high-octane new-hires (that complete training and STAY to make the AA flow work all the way to your exhaust pipe) each and every month, your car just conks out and drifts to the sputtering to the shoulder of the road....and that spanking will take many, many months, so I'm not going anywhere too soon.
Again, I understand motivations you may have for finding a bunch of pilots to risk being the ones simply being tasked to push your vehicle far enough down the road to get YOU where you need to be, but that might not be the best plan for those who push and I've seen nothing but inflated hard-sell sales pitches from not only Wilson, but even more so, you.
Envoy will be here long after many others have failed, only to have their pilots recycled at the surviving carriers. Sorry to burst your bubble; but it's the Silvers, Mesa's, TSA's, and Gojets of the world that will become staffing fodder. Look at CommutAir, down to properly staffing just 13 planes. The smart ones will make the move to a WO before the consolidations ever even begin. The two best currently are PDT and ENY
The regional industry will continue shrinking. To avoid being recycled, a pilot needs to pick carefully. It's much easier to hunt for a mainline career when you aren't contstantly having to worry about yours going out of business or being bought as staffing fodder. Envoy is the smart move right now; they'll be getting in ahead of the rush.