NY Times Article on The Pilot Shortage:
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With any luck, congress will stick to the Nixon method of denying any changes. For now, at least, it seems that lowering requirements is the third rail of federal aviation safety.
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The faa is an organization that has been for years in the back pocket of airline management.
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"American airlines has 100 apps on file for every one person they hire." I guess that headline isn't as sexy.
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I'll just say that the shortage is not going to get any better as long as the big three are making record profits. There's less a need for us regional guys. Delta announced that they're going to continue reducing the amount of regional flying to bring it back in-house when they went public with the C-Series order. When the big three start loosing profits, they will cut cost, reduce RASM or whatever the heck capacity is, and beef up regionals again.
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I'll just say that the shortage is not going to get any better as long as the big three are making record profits. There's less a need for us regional guys. Delta announced that they're going to continue reducing the amount of regional flying to bring it back in-house when they went public with the C-Series order. When the big three start loosing profits, they will cut cost, reduce RASM or whatever the heck capacity is, and beef up regionals again.
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I'll just say that the shortage is not going to get any better as long as the big three are making record profits. There's less a need for us regional guys. Delta announced that they're going to continue reducing the amount of regional flying to bring it back in-house when they went public with the C-Series order. When the big three start loosing profits, they will cut cost, reduce RASM or whatever the heck capacity is, and beef up regionals again.
This is such a joke. The C-series, which is still a rumor, will be MD88 replacements. It's not growth.
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The FFD model is dying a slow, painful death. The "majors" are just trying to milk every last penny while it is in it's death throes. Addiction is a terrible thing.
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This is so full of bull. The GAO did a survey in 2012 and it showed here are approximately 140,000 rated ATP's, and 105,000 commercial instrument rated pilots that could take the ATP Test. The FAA gave out approximately 6400 ATP certificates in 2012 and that number is trending up.
Including military pilots who are retiring that's about 250,000 pilots that are competing for 72,000 airline jobs.
There is not a pilot shortage. There is a surplus of pilots that don't want to be paid pennies to work at the regionals. BB at Republic blamed the 1500 hour rule when he should be looking to pay his pilots more. Regional first year F/O pay is trending up but is nowhere near where it should be right now.
Including military pilots who are retiring that's about 250,000 pilots that are competing for 72,000 airline jobs.
There is not a pilot shortage. There is a surplus of pilots that don't want to be paid pennies to work at the regionals. BB at Republic blamed the 1500 hour rule when he should be looking to pay his pilots more. Regional first year F/O pay is trending up but is nowhere near where it should be right now.
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