Originally Posted by
Rahlifer
Nope. The majors don't "have" to do a damn thing. It's their money. They don't "have" to share it with the competition.
You're missing the point. The majors will not allow their flying to fail to be staffed. They are making enough enough to pay the pay increases to staff that flying appropriately or bring it back in house.
Originally Posted by
NVUS
ExpressJet has the second largest pilot group in the industry and the greatest amount of 50-seaters to shed. E-175 Certification could be done in a few weeks, Inc owns three sims, and they'd be ready to rock and roll.
I'm talking new pilots to staff the flying. If you are referencing regionals that have to shed their 50-seat flying, then they can staff with those pilots. All it does is delay the inevitable though.
Originally Posted by
Beast
XJT could immediately take all the Delta flying and man it with the ERJ side or sub in some CRJ for 145s. Either way, or some combo, and XJT could cover the Delta flying tomorrow.
The only flying XJT could immediately take is the 145 flying. However, that means their United 145 flying would get parked, so someone has to park something. Getting the 175 Cert up, requires training and pilots. That doesn't happen immediately with hundreds of pilots.