Originally Posted by
Cujo665
pilot shortage
shrinkage
consolidation
wanting to grow to 7,000 sounds great. Will never happen. The entire regional industry is going to contract, not grow. Could they buy somebody or merge for the staffing increase, that’s possible…. But growing organically, nope.
not with LCC’s already starting to hire straight from colleges like regionals do. Nobody’s going to Skywest when they’ll be able to go to Spirit, Frontier or Allegiant… plus a few ACMI’s too.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but just don’t think it will get there that quick. The folks being hired at Frontier that are cadets, as I understand” have to lay out another large chunk of $$ for their type. I don’t think you’re going to see large numbers going directly to those places.
Skywest has, as I understand, recently changed tactics to a “hire everyone and weed them out”, but I still think they are pushing to be the company that ends up on top when others have finally gone away.
And again, while United APPEARS to be shrinking their regional fleet, it hasn’t happened yet. Still a lot of folks around to fill flight decks, to include green card seekers.
We’ll have to agree to disagree and revisit this in five years.