Originally Posted by
mcdonald
Interesting. Is there any chatter about ICAO raising again? Or are they not having the same challenges across the pond that we are?
I had concluded that while this would only be kicking the can down the road, it would slow things down for a bit which would help stabilize the regionals--and management would want that. I am also surprised the longest tenured pilots wouldn't want the option to keep going for a couple more years given the money they would make.
Just to get destabilized again after the can has been kicked?
Just rip the bandaid off now. This is ultimately the fault of management for the past 20-25 years so let them face those consequences. Pipeline dried up because no one in the younger generation wanted to become pilots having to spend thousands of dollars, go into debt, etc just for the ROI being $20,000 a year and MAYBE just MAYBE get to a major airline. So they decided to go into sectors where that investment had a better chance of paying off.