Originally Posted by
TheWeatherman
I would also expect it to get more stringent in the future. It is no longer a hiring market out there. Right now most Regionals are flush with applicants and backed up in sims. Where as just 18 months ago there were struggling to fill classes. Not sure where these rash of applicants came from, I mean the last pay increase wasn't that much to draw people out of dormancy.
Regional pay increases are not really drawing people out, it's major airline retirements and projected hiring.
The regionals raised pay just to compete with each other, although that does enable a few career-changers or folks from other segments of aviation to take the 121 leap.