If all the other regionals aren’t losing pilots off the top, why are they still hiring so many pilots? Has any regional grown significantly? I ran into the captain that interviewed me at another regional a year later and he said they had zero net gain of pilots. Just like Envoy, I’m sure there is some attrition the first year, but that can’t be all of it.

The majors and LCCs are hiring smaller percentage of exclusively military fixed wing pilots every year. Where do you think those pilots come from? Thin air? I’m not saying it is easy, far from it. But the entire time I flew as an FO there wasn’t more than a few captains that had updated an application anywhere in the last year.

The flow invites laziness, which is exactly what AAG wants and they are paying us less because of it.