Originally Posted by
DontLookDown
I don’t think PFT will come back.
It took massive hiring bonuses and respectable entry level wages to get many pilots in the pipeline to begin with (and there was still a shortage).
If you take away the hiring bonuses or even lower starting pay you’ll lose a lot of the applicants. All they need to see is things going in the wrong direction.
If you make them pay on top of that, you’ll lose basically all applicants.
That's the thing, until the Majors start hiring again the Regionals won't need a lot of applicants. Hence no need for hiring bonuses and possible training bonds/requirements. They won't care they are losing a lot of applicants because they just simply don't need them for the foreseeable future.