bedrock

C'mon. I'm sure Roger Cohen can find some nice homeless shelters for NYC crews. Also, if you make it to 2nd yr. pay, you can stay at the YMCA in a bunkbed for 100/ nt. Pay isn't the problem, it's those arbitrary rules!

pete2800

Nope, that won't work either. Name one regional that isn't already hiring like crazy just to staff their current flying. No one could take on that level of growth right now.

SpeedyVagabond

Agreed. Perhaps these next several years will find 175s and CRJ 900s as the smallest narrow body aircraft at the big three. There are plenty of highly skilled operators for them to bring along into the right seats. In any event, cities across the United States will soon be losing frequency of flights and perhaps even service. Yay! Fuller flights to commute and dead head on.

Ultralight

And so it begins. This summer is going to be like a train wreck in slow motion. It will be interesting to see what carrots the regionals will be dangling this time next year. Maybe they'll come up with something very generous, like offer to pay for half of your uniform!

MD11

Honestly, who cares?....
The legacies (and alpa) have been engineering this for over twenty years. Sadly, one of the side effects was the destruction of our vibrant flight training infrastructure. Raise they pay and still no quantity of significance will show up for these jobs.
As a side note, I hope the Norwegians get what they want and pull a few good regional folks from the Legacy cesspools.

NineGturn

I was LMAO when I watched that.

At first I thought it was another RAA publicity stunt trying to convince the flying public that we have a pilot shortage and they need the right to scrape even lower in the experience pool to find pilots.

But I don't think so. I think this was one of those rare situations where the media actually found and told a story without being paid to. Or maybe they asked "Delta" for money not to run it and they refused! ;-)

I was laughing mostly because they continually referred the airline as "Delta" and the pilots as "Delta pilots" with no mention of regional airlines, code shares, regional jets or anything other than "Delta." Good! Let the mainlines start taking the heat for the mess we created. My perspective on this industry is so vastly different than it was when I flew regionals some twenty years ago.

csucbrown

I laughed when I read about the person who was whining about missing their brothers wedding. "I get to go to a wedding and just LOOK how much money I saved on these cheap ass tickets! suckers!"

crazyjaydawg

I laugh because if it's that important of an event to go to, wouldn't you want to be there a day prior anyways? I feel like if you schedule your flight to get in just a couple hours before the wedding in the first place, then you're not taking that wedding to seriously.

pete2800

This.

Time to spare? Go by air.

Justdoinmyjob

Yeah, because so many US regional pilots hold EASA or CAA certificates, which are required to work at NAI. FAA ATP? Nope, sorry, no hiring for you!