Originally Posted by
RUSHAIR
OK I get it. Everything sounds good. But what is the deal with lack of pilots? All sounds good to me.?
Same deal every regional airline is having. Guys that want to move up are doing so fairly easily. Being such a small pilot group, when people leave it's noticed more. When those guys that leave are your sim instructors, ground instructors and line check airmen, it became a one man show (the Chief Pilot) to train all the new people.
Unlike other regionals, instructors still fly the line at Via. Very easy to get a schedule doing an 8 day block teaching in the sim, and later in the month and 8 day block flying the line. So, when those guys leave, you lose teacher and line pilot.