Originally Posted by
Skyler02
No? You don't think so? Please explain.
It comes down to this.
The companies that have pilots because they pay them, will continue to fly planes.
The companies that don't have pilots because they don't pay them, will not continue to fly planes.
The who, what, where, why, and when's, don't matter.
Companies with pilots will fly flights.
Companies without pilots will cancel flights.
Canceled flights = Canceled contracts.
No contracts = No revenue = No company.
You can convolute and complicate it all you want. But you don't need to. It really is as simple as that.
Mesa puts price pressure on the other regionals. Mainline won't let it fail. Mesa also has better performance than more expensive regionals. It's proof to mainline that, say, Republic can do it better when they insist that they can't. Twenty pilots per month are leaving, twenty are coming in. There's equilibrium, and when Mesa announces more planes and better pay (which will happen), pilots will continue to come.