Originally Posted by
loadedred
Does Skywest have any incentives to make their pay competitive with The American Wholly Owned now that they are almost 1/2 of the highest paying regional per hour in year 1? I mean 47 vs 90 an hour is massive! One would imagine that eventually they would run out of pilots given the identical requirements to apply to Skywest as their competitors. Or can they continue to pay as low as they do forever?
There will never be a shortage of new pilots. The only reason to increase pay would be if training costs a lot, I’m not sure how much it costs to run sims and stuff. Otherwise once they get the training footprint streamlined who cares if they are going through 80 pilots a month. However they should just double captain pay and then they would be fine since they have decent bases compared to the LCCs.