Originally Posted by TransWorld

Just as reference, the largest hiring at an individual airline was 1206 pilots hired by Delta in 2016.

Hiring rates more than that will break all time records. Not say it can’t be done. It has never been done before. Airlines can rent large hotel ballrooms to give classroom training. Simulators, in my mind, will be the bottleneck. More simulators purchased and installed? There is a lead time to build them and install them.

Separately, I have been saying what you are saying for years. I said regionals will have half (10,000 whereas we have 20,000 today) the number of pilots and one fourth the number of regional airlines in a few years. When I predicted that, I was called stupid. I think reality is about to catch up to my predictions.