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Those people getting hired by the Legacies are not those. The regionals are hiring at a trickle and it is very hard to get hired at Part 135/91 outfits these days.
Except it’s those majors hiring off the top that have a ripple effect down through the regionals - particularly the wholly owned and/or those with some version of flow. And most regionals are at or near the size allowed by the scope of the majors they feed.
Certainly the FAPA major hiring stats are not the be all or end all of commercial aviation, but every expansion or retirement at those majors certainly ripples through the whole industry to some degree.