Originally Posted by
ASaintBernard
Now that's a proper question. I believe they would like to expand up to New England with the 208s eventually. Thats why they are looking for more sea plane pilots.
I believe they are looking for more seaplane pilots because they are not going to give the entire pilot group a big raise because they're flying a few seaplanes in small niche operation and at some point they are going to have to be put on seniority list and join the union. I think the likely situation was that the captains on the seaplanes have already or will move on, or to management/flying/training role (or over to different Resorts World aircraft), and FO's will move up to captain and first officers will be hired to replace their spot at salary more in line with current Cape pay. The NYC-Mass seaplane operation would be something that would take quite a while to set-up.