Originally Posted by PilotBases

In house development is the next thing. United owns a flight school, Delta has propel. Contingency plans were well under way before Covid to have pipelines for next generation legacy pilots. Even LCCs are doing it, Frontier from ATP, Spirit has a ground instructor to pilot path. Majors and legacies are more than capable of training pilots ground up, there just wasn’t a need for the longest time. Big build up of mil guys waiting for hiring to restart too.