ALPA says there is no pilot shortage
06-08-2022 | 11:22 AM
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06-08-2022 | 06:17 PM
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Because it's a pay\benefits shortage. Right in the article: Majors have no issues hiring, regionals do. Wonder why.
06-08-2022 | 07:32 PM
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This is correct. RAA wants the address the front end of the regional pilot pipeline without considering the back end — ie. why so many leave, and not always for a major air carrier.
06-08-2022 | 07:38 PM
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SonicFlyer believes very strongly that we need to lower the standards and allow the pilot labor market to be flooded with new applicants. One look at Mesa's new TA shows why that is not a good idea.
06-09-2022 | 08:49 AM
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Alpa is right. The pilot hiring market is competitive for the first time in forever, and the trash at RAA, their stooges, and management doesn’t like it.
“Whaddya mean? You’re quitting? How could you do this to us?”
“Whaddya mean? You’re quitting? How could you do this to us?”
06-10-2022 | 06:58 PM
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Look at the number of ATPs issued in the last 10 years and you'll see your answer.
I guess it's cheaper to train people to fly a few hundred hours and watch them leave to an LCC and then park jets in the desert instead.
06-10-2022 | 07:10 PM
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Not saying that analysts, airline management, Boeing or whoever else is wrong. They do have a pilot shortage but it's not because the pilots don't exist, it's because they aren't paying them. If a major carrier absorbed its regional and paid those pilots LCC rates or higher then attrition would stop instantaneously and applications would go through the roof. They refuse to do that so "pilot shortage".
Look at the number of ATPs issued in the last 10 years and you'll see your answer.
I guess it's cheaper to train people to fly a few hundred hours and watch them leave to an LCC and then park jets in the desert instead.
Look at the number of ATPs issued in the last 10 years and you'll see your answer.
I guess it's cheaper to train people to fly a few hundred hours and watch them leave to an LCC and then park jets in the desert instead.
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