Originally Posted by
Excargodog
By that metric, hiring is actually pretty good right now. There was only one years in those 15 the entire hiring exceeded this year’s year to date, with three months hiring yet to be counted.
Yes, man.
I know that the market in the lost decade was a lot worse than now. My point is to try to illustrate how "normal" 4000+ hires is to a lot of people, as it has been the norm every year since 2016, with 2020 being the outlier. It isn't people's perception being warped by the post covid boom. It is the personal experience of
every aspiring 121 pilot since 2016, which is a lot of people. I started in 2019, pre covid. Back then, it wasn't that common to see a 2000+ hr CFI. It's a lot more common now...