Originally Posted by
SharkyBN584
The "dark years of aviation" have been going on since deregulation. I can count on both hands the number of "good" years aviation has had since then. If I wanted to count the number of bad years...well, I'd lose my shoes, pants, and would probably have to find a young attractive female to continue counting with me since I'm not wearing pants anymore.
C'mon guys...the world hasn't come to an end yet.
Hawaiian is picking up a lot of new planes and will likely hire many of the Aloha pilots.
Skywest has taken up all the slack of the Skyway op, and I know a few Skyway (and Big Sky) pilots who have all found other jobs...a long time ago.
Once 5 years has gone by, and the baby boomers "re-hit" retirement age (65), things will pick up again...just a prediction. There were going to be a lot of retirements, and now those same retirements will happen, only it will be 5 years delayed.