Originally Posted by
av8or
Then why do you think it is that for some reason nearly every other domestic and international airline (that’s not a regional) gets pilots from Alaska to their ranks but, for some reason our class breakdown doesn’t ever seem to include one theirs coming here? Wonder why that would be?
because that’s the way the pilot market is at THIS POINT IN TIME. Things change and evolve. Sure people are leaving now. They’re only leaving because they can. Post 9-11 new hire classes had furloughed pilots from every airline. Most stayed as recall took years. Believe me, in March of 2002, thousands of established pilots would have given the right arm to work here. The longer you’re in this business, the more sense this will make.