Originally Posted by
welle036
There is a push for more experience from new pilots but no way to build experience. The path from doing civilian training to atp mins doesn't exist in this stagnant industry, in time things will probably begin to balance out, but you are still going to have a group of pilots that the airlines are going to eventually need that aren't experienced enough for the job.
Well from my calculations there are around 150,000 commercial pilots who are of working age and have let their medicals go. If wages were increased and working conditions relaxed experienced pilots by the thousands would materialize out of the wood work.
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