Originally Posted by
PinnacleFO
1500 hours is also the first start to getting all flying back at mainline! There is hardly any training going on right now and in 2 or 3 years when people start retiring and regional captains start getting picked up one by one, they will not have enough people to hire in to the regionals with 1500 hours. Mainline at that point might be forced to bring at least the 76+ back to mainline.
They will have enough guys to hire..... Minimums for regionals used to be much higher, in fact back 20 years ago to even get looked at you would need 2500/300 and there was no shortage of qualified pilots. I think the issue is working conditions need to change at the regional level to attract and retain good pilots.