Right now with the aviation job industry being as absorbent as it has been, it's difficult for one to select EAS as a career stop. The main problems have all been mentioned here before, pay, schedule, benefits. When asked what makes a pilot stay somewhere, what is the most common answer? Money. QOL.
EAS is an amazing job to have in a tight job market where it's hard to find work as a pilot. Those times are past now, and the only way to foster retention is to be on par with or at least close to the competition.
At the current rate of attrition here, the only means of recovery is a swift change with long term career implications.
When a professional pilot sits down and reviews a company in this job market, he looks for a place that will give him the most for his time invested. For some guys this might be a type rating and some PIC time, only to move on to the next big thing. Then you have the group of pilots who want to settle down and know that 10 years from now they are in a position relative to their experience and time in the industry. Right now, Airshare does not offer this. Your pay caps out low. The schedule, while improved a great deal, still leaves you open to be gone a LOT. The benefits are atrocious if you have any sort of health issue.
They need to fish with a bigger net so to speak. Hiring low time pilots with limited options is great! Hiring the guy with an amazing resume is also good, because if you can reel him in, you'll probably keep him for a long long time.
Hopefully something happens soon, or else the short staffing is only going to drive guys away at an even higher rate.
VSI