Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Or airlines pay for initial training and/or time building.
I would argue that's a better solution from a business perspective because you're not then stuck with lucrative CBA's until the next you can justify chapter 11. Paid training can be throttled as necessary based on supply and demand.
If the offer free training with a housing and/or stipend until employed at a regional they'd get plenty of applicants, more than they need I'm sure.
The training will cost more than the CBAs. Let the new pilot pay to train themselves and then they can choose what airline works best for them and the most lucrative CBA being a motivating factor instead of paying for their training and getting servitude.
We are airline pilots did we forget. The idea is to pull as much compensation out of these places as possible. Let the managers run the companies because their other goal is pulling out as much cash as possible for themselves.
The spirit CEO gets $12M in bonus for closing the frontier merger so tells JetBlue they aren’t interested and also they don’t expect any increase in pilot cost for five years.