Flyboymatthew
Dear Flyboy,
I doubt that you guys will work harder than previous generations. I hear that new hire times are down to 600 hours at the regionals. Just a few short years ago the average time for a new hire was around 4000 hours and some turbine time. Back in the early 90's you had to be a C5 Captain with 10 years experience to be considered at Horizon Air. Spending 6 months as a CFI then walking into your first CRJ is not a sacrifice. Try flying night cargo in a old broken small twin all by yourself for a few years, or living in the Alaskan bush and risking your life everyday to build time. Those kind of things are what my generation had to do. And we had to do it for a long, long time.
If we could cut the production of new pilots things would begin to improve in short order.
SkyHigh