Actually there would be more jobs at the legacy carriers if we didn't have the guys wiling to be mercenaries to get that coveted job at a company like VX. See the guys going to VX are looking for a short cut. They don't want to start at the bottom of a legacy list. They are willing to take what they think is the fast track. The inevitable ending is their company tanks and they are on the street wondering why their company didn't survive. In the meantime had they not taken that job the legacy would perhaps added flying and grown. Instead the legacy had to cut wages and abandon routes because there are carriers like VX willing to throw seats in a market at ridiculous cost to attempt to gain market share.

If the pilots were indeed professionals as the moderator requested everyone to be. Then they would say no thank you to companies like VX, Skybus, National etc. They would have the cajones to resist temptation to take a short term job.

Finally, getting a pilots license doesn't give you a god given right to a job. The training academies pumped out too many pilots a few years ago and too many with more money than skills made it through. A thinning of herd needed to take place.

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