This is what a pilot shortage really does
 

Here are a few articles from the last 6 months about what the pilot shortage is really doing to regional airlines. It's not really increasing pay, but it sure is cutting jobs and airline service...

SkyWest to divest Embraer EMB-120 aircraft
SkyWest to divest Embraer EMB-120 aircraft | Airframes content from ATWOnline

Great Lakes pulls out of Telluride
Telluride Daily Planet > Archives > News > Great Lakes pulls out of Telluride

Great Lakes Slashes Service to Small Cities, Blames Pilot Shortage
Great Lakes Slashes Service to Small Cities, Blames Pilot Shortage | The Cranky Flier

SkyWest is leaving Chico
SkyWest is leaving Chico - Redding

United reduces service from Roanoke to Dulles airport
United reduces service from Roanoke to Dulles airport | Local News - WDBJ7.com Central and Southwest VA

ExpressJet Tells United It Needs to Reduce Express Flying Due to Pilot Shortage
ExpressJet Tells United It Needs to Reduce Express Flying Due to Pilot Shortage | The Cranky Flier

I don't know if you know how this works but people aren't losing jobs (other than ground service).

"doing to regional airlines" being the operative phrase.

Regional airline service is diminishing in marginal markets while some regional airline payrolls shrink as fewer pilots are available and willing to work for regional airline-level compensation. On the flip side, major and national airlines are expanding service into small/medium-sized markets that were the exclusive domain of regional carriers for the last 13+ years and are growing their pilot headcount.

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The regional "scam" worked for a little while but it is clearly played out now. The flood gates from hell are about to open and I'm laughing my a$$ off watching this comedy unfold.

Simply the first burbles of the approaching tsunami lapping the shore. The smaller weaker regionals will be the first casualties and now it's starting to impact the larger ones. 12-18 months from now, it will be a full-blown crisis when the main wave slams into shore and then managements could throw all the money they have at it and still can't prevent it or stop it. It's too late now.

Many markets will lose service and others will have it significantly reduced. Due to the reduction is seats, airlines will be able to charge more and that coupled with cheap fuel should be good for profits. In about 5 years, that tsunami will hit the legacies, if nothing is done now. It takes years to seed a healthy pipeline and this disasterous wave has been 5 years in the making.

They'll **** it up for sure. :cool:

There is no pilot shortage. If you've been to a job fair there's still some college intern that tells you to do some volunteer work to round out your resume. I guess I should go massage puppies an hour a week huh?

I smell Embry riddle or ATP Flight School all over this guy.

Really ?

I hear of regional airlines cold-calling off old applications.

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Really? Did you laugh in his face? How does volunteer work make you a better, safer pilot. If I did volunteer work, it would be from the heart and not to "pump up" my resume. I guess there are some here who would volunteer solely for personal gain tho


Just like there are some who pad their logbooks, say they voted no when they voted yes, fly struck work. All about the same level of individual in my book.

Character gentlemen. Look it up.

ATP Flight School. My FO knows.