Originally Posted by
TransWorld
Short term. But later this decade, the Pilot shortage will raise its ugly head. Boeing will get their act together and be able to get plane deliveries going again. Regionals will have that big sucking sound on their left seat. Retirement and growth are freight trains that cannot be stopped.
I’m not so sure…there is a very different dynamic between now and the end of the decade.
Until the last few years, the airline basically extorted pilots at the regional level. Pay was abysmal because pilots were a dime a dozen. They could pay us crap and we would still line up to build time.
You can actually have a pretty good career at the regionals and the stagnation until recently was non existent.
The moral: people are actually trying to become pilots now. We are minting pilots much faster than the 2005-2013 time frame.