Originally Posted by
giggity37
It has nothing to do with investment. It takes forever for the FAA to sign off a new type on a certificate. So United would basically be buying pilots and no aircraft. It would be cheaper to hire them off the street. Skywest has nutered the once great jetlink... expressjet.
UAL tried this with CummutAir and it didn’t work so well. I think in order for this to work you need a large experience base to begin with as Endeavor did on the DAL side. They were able to easily absorb experienced XJT pilots from the CRJ side as the DAL contract wound down, but they weren’t starting from scratch.