Originally Posted by
Itsajob
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.
As much as I'd like this to be true, classes at most the regionals are full and backlogged. It's financially justifiable nowadays to pursue it and I think there is enough desperation in the american system nowadays it drives people to take on huge risk, which the airline career is. Many of my coworkers are millennials. They are showing up in suffcient numbers but perhaps not as much as in prior generations. Still, filling the ranks is a drop in the bucket. I think 135 and the bottom barrel 121 are the only ones feeling the pinch. Will that change? Anyone's guess. The regional hiring mania of 2014-2018 has seemed to cool off.