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.
This would be true if future demand will be the same as in February when this blows over. It probably won’t be and there will be serious contractions in 121/135, meaning thousands of pilots flooding the applicant pool and making it an employer’s market