Originally Posted by
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They will be hiring approximately 5000 pilots a year. for the next 4 years. Delta, United and AA alone will be hiring 3000 per year. Add in Hawaiian, Southwest, Alaska/Virgin, Frontier, UPS, FedEx, JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant, and the other major and LCC's, and that makes another 2000 a year.
5000 x 4=20,000
There are not currently 20,000 regional pilots.
Air Wisconsin - 650
Commutair - 300
Compass - 990
Endeavor - 1750
Envoy - 1800
Expressjet - 3385
GoJet - 500
Mesa - 1000
Piedmont - 450
PSA - 1200
Republic - 2000
SkyWest - 4000
TSA - 600
That equals just over 18,000 regional pilots.
In 2016, the majors/lcc's will have hired about 3800, plus the few hundred that were recalled from furlough at AA. 2016 was not supposed to be a big hiring year. If 4200 pilots is not a big hiring year, imagine what 2018-2020 is going to look like.
You forgot:
Great lakes
Mountain Air Cargo
Silver
Netjets
Flexjets
Kalittta Air
Atlas
Omni Air
Cape Air
Every part 135 pilot in the country
Many part 91 pilots in the country
And thousands upon thousands of military pilots
Plus many more I'm prob forgetting.
And: the spirit, jetblue , frontier pilots + thousands of military pilots that will try to move up to AA, UA, DAL ,leaving RJ guys slots only at ULCCs.