Originally Posted by
KC135
These startups will pay competitive wages, $200/hr year 1 or 2 street CA and top out at $270+/hr, just like every other ULCC/LCC currently pays except 1. Most regional guys will take the risk for that carrot considering DN is 4 for 4 with airline startups. As far as draining the regionals by these startups, not sure who came up with that idea but even if they hire a 1-2k each, there are 20k regional pilots today plus new ATPs students are increasing every year so that logic doesn’t add up.
These LCCs and ULCCs will wise up and start their own instructor pipeline and RTP etc programs just like the legacies have done with their regionals. Sun Country and JetBlue have already begun this. More will follow. There will never be a shortage of pilots at the legacies or the LCCs the way there will be at the regionals in the coming years. It’s only going to get more competitive and the legacies will have to get more creative to secure their comparatively cheap regional feed.