Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
“pilot shortage” triggers a lot of people. There’s not really a pilot shortage. There are plenty of people who want to be regional FO’s. The problem is captains and especially LCA’s.
An airline cannot magically replace every LCA every three months. You can only make as many captains as you have people with 1000 hours.
skywest is the only regional that might survive that
what are the odds someone who is currently a CA at their regional, watching it burn, would be able to upgrade fairly quickly at OO while they wait for the major / ULCC to call?