Regional airline CEO warns of pilot shortage
05-12-2016 | 09:15 PM
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"He acknowledged that low starting salaries are an issue, but he said PSA encourages prospective pilots to think of their career in terms of more than the first year. Given the airline’s growth and connection to American, new first officers can get promoted and move up to American in a decade or less.
“There’s never been, at least in my view, a better time to be a commercial pilot,” Flannery said. “We try to condition people to look at it over a three- to five-year time frame.”
This is such BS. Lets tell the head of PSA that he is going to be paid 20k a year but he should look at it over a period of time when he may become the head of Delta or American. Take less now because you might get paid more in the future. FU, pay me!
“There’s never been, at least in my view, a better time to be a commercial pilot,” Flannery said. “We try to condition people to look at it over a three- to five-year time frame.”
This is such BS. Lets tell the head of PSA that he is going to be paid 20k a year but he should look at it over a period of time when he may become the head of Delta or American. Take less now because you might get paid more in the future. FU, pay me!
05-13-2016 | 06:30 AM
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Look at endevor; offer 50k a year starting with the potential to have a guaranteed interview at Delta and they're having no problems filling classes.
05-13-2016 | 06:45 AM
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I would like to see more regionals start at 50K/yr.
05-13-2016 | 06:53 AM
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I wish the reporter woukd have asked him why mainline American doesn't have a "staffing problem".
05-13-2016 | 07:02 AM
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You guys are making good points. i just spent a year and a half not flying because I was not going to waist my time for 20000 per year. There is no shortage of pilots. Pay a pilot 75000 a year and you will have all the FOs you need. Make captain's pay 120 and classes will fill up again. Many of my friends just sit at home.
05-13-2016 | 08:14 AM
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Listening to these low life regional CEO's whine about the "pilot shortage" is music to my ears. After exerting so much time and energy to gut pay, benefits and working conditions, they are baffled that nobody is lining up to work for them.
05-13-2016 | 08:50 AM
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He is telling the public that we should understand someday "we" will work for somebody else.
Just gotta pay that passage.
This is insane how people up the corporate/political spin.
Just gotta pay that passage.
This is insane how people up the corporate/political spin.
05-13-2016 | 08:51 AM
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He is telling the public that we should understand someday "we" will work for somebody else.
Just gotta pay that passage.
This is insane how people eat up the corporate/political spin.
Just gotta pay that passage.
This is insane how people eat up the corporate/political spin.
05-13-2016 | 09:47 AM
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Why do the unions let them get away with paying so little? Isn't that what they are there to prevent?
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