It certainly doesn’t seem to be the case at my regional, but I have a number of friends at other regionals who indicate they are seeing long reserve times with very little flying hours, sometimes single digits a month. In some cases (Horizon) even lineholders don’t seem to be getting much time. They are getting PAID of course, at least minimum guarantee, but for the junior people there (and I’m talking junior in flying hours) they are not accumulating turbine 121 time or TT at a very good rate.

Could be when the peak of the retirement wave hits in 3-4 years that having 3000 TT with maybe 500 TPIC will be enough to be competitive, I don’t know, but unless utilization rates change it seems unlikely some of the new hires will have much more than that, especially the RATP guys.

And this has to be costing management some money. I just don’t get it.