Originally Posted by
Pilotchute
A friend of mine believes the regionals will soon run out of career changers. These people got their pilot certificates 10+ years ago but left the industry. They have been flooding back to aviation due to big sign on paychecks and a much improved hourly rate.
Once this dries up he believes that regionals will go back to having only 3 or 4 people in a new hire class. For the non WO owned anyway.
I don't know, it would seem that they have done a really good job of developing their upstream recruiting. While I agree career changers are over, I think they have bought enough time to get people back into flight schools to fill the voids.