Pilot shortage still a concern for regionals
04-14-2024, 03:53 PM
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A temporary hiring bubble did not a shortage make, and there is NO shortage prently, and there are no shortages of applicants.
Legacy airlines which reduced various descriminator criteria weren't experiencing a shortage; just increasing the volume of applicants. A degree, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with a desirable candidate or a good pilot. With the massive volumes of applicants over the years it was nothing more than a token to winnow down the applicants: a box to check. That box limited applicants that could otherwise apply and be considred, at an artificially-inflated brief period of hiring, after the pandemic.
That time has passed.
There was no shortage. Just a temporary increased demand, and ample pilots to fill it. The wild prognostications that it would continue, unabated for years to come, proved equally false to the ridiculous notion of a shortage. There was never a shortage; nor is there one now.
Legacy airlines which reduced various descriminator criteria weren't experiencing a shortage; just increasing the volume of applicants. A degree, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with a desirable candidate or a good pilot. With the massive volumes of applicants over the years it was nothing more than a token to winnow down the applicants: a box to check. That box limited applicants that could otherwise apply and be considred, at an artificially-inflated brief period of hiring, after the pandemic.
That time has passed.
There was no shortage. Just a temporary increased demand, and ample pilots to fill it. The wild prognostications that it would continue, unabated for years to come, proved equally false to the ridiculous notion of a shortage. There was never a shortage; nor is there one now.
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