Originally Posted by
Approach1260
With the LCC's starting to hire FO's with restricted ATP mins starting at around $70 an hour first year up to about $110 the next, AA needs to do something drastic to keep the lights on at the wholly owneds.
Whether or not they will, is the big question none of us have the answer to yet.
If they don't do something big however i don't see how we don't keep bleeding pilots until we can't operate anymore.
Pilots get paid by how many seats are on the plane. The LCC’s have 130+ seaters so much more wiggle room to pay the pilots more compared to the regionals capped at 76 seats.
Delta isn’t making money on their A220 because their staff is too expensive. They can’t just up the pay rates and operates flights at a loss so don’t expect rates to go up to LCC rates.