Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
There’s a huge population of 1500 hr pilots on waiting lists. Just need a slight slow down in legacy hiring for it all to ripple down to solve the captain problem. Age 67 could do it. Ramping up recession could do it. Higher fuel prices could do it.