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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.
Almost, some of those company's are hiring because their guys are going to the big 3. You can't double count the same positions.
If a position at mainline is filled with an LCC pilot then it creates a job there, but that isn't 2 jobs available.
I.e. A Delta vacancy filled with a JB pilot creating a vacancy at JB. That is not 2 vacancys for the RJ pilot workforce.