Originally Posted by
Excargodog
see comment in the Skywest?s thread.
I doubt management even knows when they’ll be able to stabilize classes right now. They can’t fly current FOs full time without more CAs. Adding more zero time FOs will just slow upgrade time on current FOs and increase their loss rate. They desperately need for the majors to stop hiring for the regional model to recover.
I doubt majors will slow down their hiring for the regionals to recover. This seems to be a pretty bad bottleneck that I'm sure they are trying to work out however they can. My best guess is they would need to focus on improving their ability to train more pilots (Captains and FOs) to keep up with attrition rates. I would love to see how they solve this problem and still maintain profits.