Pilot Shortage: It's Baaaaaaack...
03-09-2021, 03:24 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by Varsity
AA acquired more pilot trash in one merger than the flow has brought in 30 years. Airways and AmWest were garbage airlines compared to AMR, with equally low hiring standards.
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03-10-2021, 06:35 AM
#33
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Originally Posted by Mainline Mulier
He/she isn’t far from the truth. I left airways for delta and it was night and day.
I'll take the miserable and old over the *******s. Arrogant bunch over there.
03-10-2021, 10:50 AM
#34
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Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop
Back to the original question. The same situation back in 2018 and 2019 will be back again. The only question is when. The baseline issues that created 18 and 19 are still here in 2021 only masked by the Covid situation. Each day, every one of us gets a day older and closer to retirement. The input from all sectors has been reduced because of the “sky is falling” predictions from those who aren’t in the know. Will new pilots start ramping up to meet the new demand curve is yet to be seen.
03-10-2021, 11:09 AM
#35
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Originally Posted by greatmovieistar
Will it though? You expect the demand to come back 100% in leisure, business, and international? Very optimistic outlook.
03-14-2021, 06:00 AM
#36
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Asia, maybe Latin America and Africa, not Europe. The pilot market in Europe always seems to be a poop-show from the pilot perspective.
03-14-2021, 08:02 AM
#37
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Originally Posted by ObadiahDogberry
From fall 2016 to Covid, there was a ton of pilot hiring in Europe, it was really not hard to find a job at all if you looked outside of the likes of Lufthansa, KLM, etc. Even BA went through a pretty big hiring binge for a few years.
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