Originally Posted by
AFTrainerGuy
Exactly. It’s not as if no one else is going to become a pilot in the next decade and it’s a finite list of pilots to backfill the retirements. You make some other great points above too. Just a small example, the USAF is trying to up it’s pilot production from about a 1000 a year to 1500. In a decade, all those “extra” guys will start being at their ADP (airline decision point) too. If The industry remains stable and pay is good, people will invest time and $$$ to become pilots and there will be no “dire” shortage.
There are fewer people wanting to enter this profession and others that require a large personal and financial input before any chance of seeing a reward. There is a different culture now. I’m not going to call it entitlement, millennial, or anything like that, but there is a different mindset now. The industry will eventually be forced to adapt. Until that happens, life at the regionals is going to stink, and life at the legacies is going to be gravy. The concessions are over, it’s time to get paid and claw back what we gave up over the years.