I fail to see a downside to this.
We are currently losing about 20 a month to attrition, out of a pilot population of maybe 675. That’s about three percent per month. That’s 36% per year. And the mandatory retirements at the majors haven’t even peaked yet.
Increase that by 2 pilots a month who wouldn’t have otherwise left and we are up to 3.3% per month or almost 40% per year.
Since even at the maximum legal rate of 1000 hours a year - blocking 83.3 hours a month - it will take you two full years to get the hours you need to upgrade and then the “magic” 1000 hrs of TPIC, and it’s going to take everyone some time to get through initial training, it doesn’t seem possible to do just a heck of a lot better - on the average - than that.
And I’m not saying just not likely, but not really possible.
And while yeah sure, not everyone leaving is necessarily going to their first choice of places to go, neither have they precisely wasted their time at Compass either. They’ve gotten in, gotten a type rating, gotten experience that improved their resume’ and left for someplace better, without spending six months on reserve not flying sitting in a crash pad someplace they didn’t want to be. And I reiterate; the mandatory retirements at the majors haven’t even peaked yet.
What more was anyone realistically expecting from a regional? Seriously?
If you want to actually spend a career at a regional, Republic and Skywest would probably be better bets. Compass is more of a get in and get experience and move on sort of place.