Interesting article. Businesses are instruments of profit for shareholders. There is no pilot shortage, just an unwillingness to compensate an employee for their value. I wonder how regional pilots are going to feel when they try to apply to United via airline apps with a 4 yr STEM degree, clean PRIA and 1000+hrs Part 121 PIC only to find that another woman or person of color who posts YouTube videos of their journey through United Flight school with “passing” results and no degree gets a job ahead of them.

Only reason pilots put up with regional pay is to move onto a higher paying legacy job. When you start telling hard working pilots that people are jumping the line ahead of them due to the color of their skin or gender, you might have a problem.

Regionals think they had a hiring problem prior to the pandemic. I can tell you, it will be a lot worse if pilots are not getting a fair chance when applying to a legacy.

There is already cultural diversity within flying, you don’t have to force it.