Originally Posted by
TransWorld
Who owns them? Can you point to proof? What age?
My understanding is there are not many new/gently used planes in storage.
I talked to a buddy last night who is on property and recently went thru captain upgrade. I asked him about this issues. His reply was that there more than enough parked 145s out in the desert from American Eagle. But before Piedmont can ask American to get them out of storage, they have to hire so many pilots per month (I didn't write down the number) but they just can't do that. So from what his class was told by the CEO, its a bodies problem right now, now necessarily a hulls problem. Second hand info, FWIW....