Originally Posted by Cujo665

Pulling the flying back in house was always in the cards. With the staffing shortage to worsen, they need to keep butts in the seats at their WO airlines.

You’ll see consolidation (get your mergers committee spooled up and trained) among the WO.... then pulling flying back in house to keep the operation staffed, upgrades going, and will force the vendor pilots not hired elsewhere to recycle themselves as new hires leaving their dying regional for a place with movement. They’ll go where flying is being added, and upgrades still happening.

Places like TSA C5 G7 all will face stagnation as they can’t hire and then can’t upgrade. Shrinkage follows as the flying gets pulled back in house to keep it covered. Bankruptcies and buyouts will happen as a survival technique

Just look at Compass for the example.

Called all of this 5 years ago. (called compass 2 years ago)