Originally Posted by
LurkingEmbraer
So this is great. Eagle needs 400 new hires, ASA/XJT projects the need for 300 to 500 new hires and Trans States needs about 500 more as well over the next year and a half. Must be a lot of fresh flight instructors in the pipeline...
Nope. A fraction of the necessary pilots are out there and it would take YEARS to resupply that if they started aggressively NOW. Again, the
claim is Envoy is losing at least 350 to AA over the next 16 months (end of 2016), but only needs 400 to replace them. Only 50 pilots will leave Envoy over that same period to places OTHER then AA ?
Does this math work for you and if not, can you trust this source ?
Caveat Emptor.