Originally Posted by
cal73
What about all the pilots out of ERAU, UND, Purdue, etc and then the gulfstream training academies, Comair academy, Allatps etc? Those pilots have been and will be treading water for the foreseeable future.. "Layoff all you want. Were still making more." So there will be a backlog for at least a decade while the airlines restock... and thats if capacity is kept near current levels. Another merger would not bode well for pilot hiring.
As far as the rest rules impacting this... lets just hold on to our wad for now.
Thoose students will dry up real soon. For right now a small supply will build up but at the same time guys are still aging when 65hits American/United/Us Air and some CAL will loose alot then suck up a ton of RJ guys. Regionals will get the remaning CFI and such. All of this happening while less loans and High Mins will deter people from taking up the proffesion in general. I think this will be interesting to see how it all plays out.