Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Why should they bother, it's not really their problem to solve???
If airlines didn't want to massively raise compensation and QOL, they could have easily setup paid ab-initio pipelines about five years ago and they'd be fine. Zero => CPL/CFI =>CFI (or just paid to to turn avgas into noise) to 1500 hours => regional => mainline. You'd have all the takers you'd need for that.
ROI timeframe. How do you convince someone to invest in an idea that may take 5-10 years to pay off? Especially when the competition isn't. Similarly in the military I used to call it three year good idea rule. If something briefs well and at least appears to look good for three years the principal actors have all gotten promoted/PCS/retired before an idea craters and even if it does do well they typically aren't around to see any extended benefit, financial or otherwise. People just don't look much beyond 2-3 years and yes I've been guilty too.