KDUA

welcome to the dark years in aviation!!! but it will change. The reasone I'm saying this is because there are not many US pilots at flight schools anymore, mostly forigners.

I feel sorry for all the pilots that lost their jobs in the last couple of days!!!

Good luck to all you out there!

SharkyBN584

The "dark years of aviation" have been going on since deregulation. I can count on both hands the number of "good" years aviation has had since then. If I wanted to count the number of bad years...well, I'd lose my shoes, pants, and would probably have to find a young attractive female to continue counting with me since I'm not wearing pants anymore.

nicholasblonde

C'mon guys...the world hasn't come to an end yet.

Hawaiian is picking up a lot of new planes and will likely hire many of the Aloha pilots.

Skywest has taken up all the slack of the Skyway op, and I know a few Skyway (and Big Sky) pilots who have all found other jobs...a long time ago.

Once 5 years has gone by, and the baby boomers "re-hit" retirement age (65), things will pick up again...just a prediction. There were going to be a lot of retirements, and now those same retirements will happen, only it will be 5 years delayed.

HercDriver130

i have to sort of agree...... are things gonna get tight for awhile....probably. but this business has always been a roller coaster. The airline business is FULL of names of carriers who failed or were absorbed by others... here is just a few...... Braniff, Eastern, PanAM, Muse Air ( bought by SWA in the early years ), Morris Air, Western, Frontier ( the original ), Ozark, TWA, Republic ala Southern Airlines ( now part of NWA ), Peoples Express, Business Express......and dozens more that have come and gone......the reality is the pay and work rules are not what they werent were....and probably never will be again, AND through it all the public has continued to fly and the numbers of people has continued to climb..... the fact that age 65 and this downturn happened around the same time is what really sucks, without "65" ( and no lets not debate that yet again ), even with the downturn most would still be hiring at some level due to retirements....... the only real fact is that this business changes daily..... what the hiring situation will be in a year nobody knows....it is what it is.