Does anyone think we'll eventually see the regionals sponsoring training in return for a longer signed commitment to fly for them? And I'm not talking about a pay to play situation.

 

No..

(filler)

 

Yes, eventually we'll see a lot of funky things. Isn't eagle doing something like this already?

 

Yes, 10,000 scholarship for embry riddle students with 3.0 gpa. Which is really chump change there. So nothing serious yet.

 

Wish someone would give ME 5% of what my college education and lack of sexual activity for 4 years cost.....

 

I think you can get that from a regional airline scheduling department pretty easily, its just not the fun kind.

 

I think a push for some version of MPL will come first. Sponsorship programs to follow.

 

Its actually cheaper to just increase regional pay than to pay for someones training who may flunk out; meaning lost time and money by airlines. Imagine a regional investing 100K into a pilot for training and at least a few years in time. Then that pilot decides he/she no longer wants to be a pilot and purposely fails his check ride or quits. Or maybe he fails out of training altogether...how much money and time would be wasted?
The best candidate for this job is someone who loves to fly and proves this by investing time and money into his/her own training. The expense and time of flight training weeds out those that really aren't cut out for it. The wiser thing is to pay this person like a professional, say 60k to start(less that 100k) in training.

I think the industry tried paying for pilot training in the 60s and 70s with not so good results.

 

Yeah now those guys are working an additional 5 years....

YAY!!

 

It depends on if they can get the cost of training down somehow. Auto-interviews and hiring by way of agreements/bridge programs are much more likely.