Originally Posted by
TeamSasquatch
It is PTF in some ways, with the contract. You are 100% right, they need PIC’s, all they need to do is whip out the checkbook and they will show up. Lots of pilots with 1200hrs out there needing 300hrs more to go 121. Make the pay nice, schedule reasonable and such, people will stick around past 1500hrs. Imagine how bad the piston feeders have it.... that might take its own thread to sort out though.
I bet a minority of the pilots would stick around IF they go the XYZ Air to get 300 hrs in order to get the ATP mins. I don’t want to offend anybody so I’ll spare mentioning specific locations, but many of the outstation bases are not places to live unless you’re from there.