Consolidation helped ease the demand on pilots.
American Eagle Puerto Rico operation ceased
Skywest Brasilia operation ceased
Mesa Hawaiian operation ceased
Chautauqua
Shuttle America
Mesaba
Colgan
ComAir
Lynx
Air Midwest
all consolidated or ceased.
Airlines have lowered there hiring standards and washed out fewer new hires, allowing more sim.
More and more flying has gone to PBS carriers who can operate more flights with less people.
More carriers award line above 75 hours utilizing the same size group to fly more.
Delta has grown the their total pilot count and coverd more flying which could have been outsourced.
More RJ company's fly >50 seat airplanes requireing less hulls and jobs.
Most RJ company's have gotten rid of anything that was <50 seats.
In 2008 6 major airlines still operated their separate regional feed systems, which created overlap compared to today's networks.

 

Is this good or bad? I'am detecting sarcasm? $121 for the captain and $19 for the FO was the glory days? You feel inflation sneaking up on you if an FO can afford to eat and pay rent?

What would tickle your fancy? FO's pay to play and captains go to $130 an hour?

 

Sarcasm. Regional pay has risen significantly at the bottom, which is to say instead of living in a van down by the river, you can now afford an apartment. Regional compensation hasn't changed much at the middle or top, and you can make a plausible case that it has declined at the top, especially if you count QOL and bennies.

Just the nature of the beast, only reason the bottom has improved is because needs to attract pilots.

 

This is not accurate in the case of SWA. Earlier this year SWA had ~2,800 qualified applicants on file and historically they've had ~7,000 on file on any given day. Hence why they changed the 1,000 TPIC requirement to 1,000 TPIC preferred. We can assume those same ~2,800 applicants are most likely on file at the usually legacies and cargo carriers. Recently SWA has eliminated the type rating requirement and the 1,000 TPIC requirement. Those are 40+ year policies gone in the span of only a couple of years.

Make your own conclusion about whether or not to call this a Pilot shortage but the fact is hiring practices are changing. There are 15 more years of escalating nationwide retirements.

 

Soo you're saying you can make a career at Mesa cause they suck and will always suck?


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As long as Mesa continues their long and proud tradition of being just about the crappiest regional in human history.

 

Ironically our seniority list is shrinking after the TA passed. Short of a bad recession I see Mesa shrinking considerably over the next 5 years.

With the wholly owneds becoming accepted cost centers for mainline, I think a new school of thought regarding regionals has emerged.

 

FO I flew with recently said AA HR told him they now have 3000 resumes on file of qualified applicants...2007 they had 13,000.

 

AA is losing 74% of their pilots over the next ten years. They're free to call me any time.

 

Anyone have a breakdown or list of the mandatory retirement's at each airline? I know I saw one somewhere but can't remember where.