Originally Posted by
JulesWinfield
There aren’t plenty of pilots. Maybe 10-12k at regionals. Spirit and Frontier are hiring 1k each, Delta, United, Southwest and AA want to hire 2k each. That’s 10k pilots by the end of the year.
Worth noting that a lot of the LCC hiring is to replace those they lose out the revolving door to the legacies. So the total numbers needed in a given year are not quite the sum of all the majors' hiring.