What are republic schedules like in the 170/75? Legs per day? Length of overnights?

 

There will never be a shortage of QUALIFIED PILOTS. There will however be a shortage of people willing and able to work for substandard wages.

 

You say that as if sub-par wages and work rules is something new. It isn't. It's as old as the airline industry itself. The only segments that have ever been lucrative for pilots are the Major airlines and some corporate outfits. Every other segment has always paid near-poverty wages and has treated its pilots with disrespect. "Hey, if YOU don't fly that trip in that airplane, we'll get someone who will" was the most common sentence uttered in the lower rungs of professional aviation. And they were right. If you didn't, somebody else would. It was always that way.

Believe it or not, things are beginning to change. Every airline that is not a Major is having extreme difficulty finding qualified applicants (those with ATP minimums) because there simply aren't that many out there any more who don't already work for the Majors, Regionals, or Corporate operations. The well truly is drying up.

The supply line of new pilots out of flight schools into this business has been withering for years now. New-student starts are just a fraction of what they were when I was a student pilot in the early 80's. This, combined with the Major airlines finally beginning to lose thousands of pilots over the next few years through mandatory retirements will cause the Regional industry to begin to lose thousands of their own to the Majors, with only a fraction of those leaving able to be replaced by incoming new hires, who simply are just not there in any real numbers any more.

 

450. Your wrong on that one.

If there is a shortage we will just see more mergers. Us air and American will merge and will put many out of work. En they will/are going to contract all that work out to contract carriers. There will be no shortage... There hasn't been one since Wilbur and Orville flipped a coin to see who would be first

 

You can't state this with any more certainty the poster that you claim to be wrong. It's all opinions.

 

Did Delta furlough when they merged? Has United furloughed since the merge? I may be wrong here but I am sure the answer is no. Why is US and AA merge any different in that people will get laid off?

 

Because with this announcement, Republic IS Eagle.

 

This. ^^^^^^

You will languish in the right seat at AE, and then lose your job.

At RAH, you will languish in the right seat for less pay, then upgrade, and hopefully move on.

 

Not precisely true. VX has LOTS of candidates.

 

ROFL. Not even remotely the same, but I get the joke.