Originally Posted by
Fr8Thrust
The solution is simple: places like AMF need to incentivize their workforce to want to stay. QOL, schedules, benefits, and pay are far lacking compared to today’s regional offering. It’s not the pilots fault that they left, it’s AMF fault for not being able to retain. Pilots will stay to become PIC only if you offer them good trips, a CBA, schedule/trip trades, non-rev/ZED pass travel, and a glimmer of hope that a legacy airline will even look at them. But as long as the equipment is antiquated, the layovers are embarrassing, and the schedule is crap nobody in their right mind is going to stay.