Originally Posted by
Crown
nothing is official obviously, but rumblings from a friend in the training department said they want to hire 200+ for 20 consecutive months. Furthermore, the number of qualified applicants has dwindled across ALL airlines, not just us. Not sure what's going to happen.
4,000 new pilots would be massive. But sounds like what we need if we want to get back to our 2019 size plus a little. Regionals are gonna start hurting bad, which I think will cause more flying to shift to us which would continue to perpetuate the RJ pilot pay induced shortage. IMO.
wildcard is gonna be when EAS start canceling flights to rural cities with powerful congressmen will there be pressure to roll back the ATP rule