Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
The problem is that if there's stagnation on the AA regionals, people will keep going to other places.
FOs are moving out to better places. Jr CAs are moving to better places. AA is not the only place, the only people that will stay here are the ones waiting for the flow or the one that don't want to apply.
Yes, that appears to be the present situation. I understand pilots at Envoy for the most part have not altered their career approach by refusing to only consider staying at Envoy. Not sure about the other two regionals though, but if another legacy or in most cases an LCC offers a class (something tangible vs. a projected, hypothetical promise), most pilots will take it, especially when that promise is years away. Considering there are so few pilots to fly RJ's in the future, industry stagnation would be about the best thing to happen to the legacies as that would be the only model that would likely ensure a minimally adequate cadre of regional pilots in the future.
It would have to be something that forced all the legacies into that mold though.