Originally Posted by
Swoopy
It absolutely is correct. Tell me which 1500 CFI is applying to PSA first in that scenario. One that wants Dayton? PSA would get the bottom of the barrel.
Qualified vs competent candidates is not the same. I don’t know how big that gap is, because I’m not on the hiring team. What I do know is that I received multiple interviews at ATP mins, so I lean towards the idea that the supply vs demand isn’t as bad as we think.
If someone has intel from a hiring manager, I’m all ears.
there are thousands of 1500 hour CFIs that are perfectly qualified and can’t get interviews. It is somewhat random at this point. You will learn very quickly in this industry that your career and everything that happens on the way is mostly luck. Now, that’s not to say that you shouldn’t do everything in your power to position yourself to get lucky! If you don’t do everything you can to take advantage of that luck, you won’t get anywhere! But those who can’t get jobs are mostly just unlucky. They’ll get hired eventually, somewhere, but yeah, they’d work for just about any price to get 121 time and get closer to their career destination. $60/hr sounds great compared to most cfi gigs.
There is absolutely no doubt that the AA WO regionals could eliminate the pilot supply premium and revert to the contractual rates (a 33% pay cut) without having any staffing problems whatsoever. Will they? That remains to be seen. I think it’s 50/50. At least some changes in the company’s favor are highly likely. But they absolutely, positively could if they chose to with very limited negative effects. The most likely effect wouldn’t be them lagging the industry, but rather the others all racing to the bottom to join them. Regional contracts don’t mean anything when the majors threaten to take all your flying and send it to other regionals.