Originally Posted by BrazilBusDriver

Regionals have been doing it since the mid-2000s. My first approach to mins had paying pax in the back, and we de-iced on the way there. We need to up our training game on the 737 (re: dumb down/spoon feed/meet the candidates where they are), but what makes us special in this new labor shortage world?

Adapt or die. Part of that’s gonna be pay and bennies (some of which we’ve already seen in the last several months, and which the company appears to be quite capable of continuing based upon recent financial performance and forward guidance), part of that’s going to be taking folks outta flight school. I acknowledge that you would prefer the former, me too.

But United Airlines famously hired zero time pilots in the 1960s. I bet we can train folks with 750-1500 hours in the domestic network if that’s what it takes.