Originally Posted by
TransWorld
You can be making money, but if you don’t have enough pilots coming in the door, you cannot fly all of those money making machines. Looking at the RJ industry as a whole, one is seeing planes being parked due to lack of pilots. Makes no difference if that airframe could make money. That is happening right now, today.
Looking at the numbers being hired vs. numbers going to the majors, etc. it is only going to get a LOT worse for the RJs as this year goes on. I am a realist.
That making money includes needing pilots and paying them and treating them better. Granted you are not going to stop people from leaving a regional to go to a major carrier, but there is still a lot that can be done to encourage MORE people to come and fewer to leave and still make money.