Originally Posted by sflpilot

I meant the aircraft only. Of course I am not talking about a flow or staple. But the math is looking like once mainline is continuously hiring massive numbers of pilots from the regionals or any other operation, it's only a matter of time before they go under. This is because they are already fighting for pilots at regionals, what happens when the attrition gets even worse and the regionals cannot staff their flights? They are not going to pay more at a regional than mainline so at that point the party's over. The real problem is there are just so few people in the flight school pipeline these days to come to the regionals. I can assure you that DL, AA and UAL will hire everyone they need to keep things running smoothly as the forced retirements hit. My point is they are not going to park aircraft at mainline so they can help save some garbage regional or 135 outfit by not hiring their pilots. People are ready and willing to take jobs at mainline, not so much regionals, hence they allocate the aircraft to keep the flying going and hire what they need.