Originally Posted by
Mytime2025
You obviously are just buying the ALPA propaganda line. First those numbers are not complete. How many are even interested in an airline carreer? How many of those ATPs are current? How many are medicaled out? ALPA posted numbers that look very incomplete in my opinion. The FAA has acknowledged a pilot shortage. ALPA is the outlier in this.
If this was really a pilot shortage and not a pay shortage, then why would AA bump their regional WOs' pay rates significantly? That action won't make more pilots.