Slow, ACL, and ftb,

Want to hire more pilots? The best thing that we can do is get our wages up in the next contract. I am amazed at the number of Captains I fly with that fly 85 to 100 hours a month, to "make ends meet." I am not talking about green slips these are guys flying this amount using WS and the Swap Board.

In fact I flew with a Capt recently who was made because he could not get scheduled to the FAR limits each month because he needed that many hours.

With higher wages many (not all) guys would fly less hours thus creating a need for more bodies.