Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
There's no shortage. We have a temporary artificial demand following an unprecedented spin-down with Covid; we're working through a rebound effect. The myth of a pilot shortage had been bantied around for decades, and has always been a lie used to sell flight training and magazines
In my 30 years in the aviation industry, I’ve never seen a time when regionals offered so much pay, or so much in bonus money to come to work. I’ve never seen so may pilot applicants with the wet ink on their ATP skip the regionals and start at Spirit or Frontier.
When was the last time the legacies dropped their hiring minimums?
How do you explain this except there are a lot of available seats, and not enough qualified applicants to fill them? By definition, that’s what’s called a pilot shortage.