This is regionals. Yes, other CARRIERS are raising the bar, but that's because those CARRIERS cannot hire pilots. Has nothing to do with the pilot groups, the best any pilot group can do is try to coerce the company into sharing with the old-hires a bit of the largess they're throwing at the new-hires.

 

It's been running 4-5 months to get a line after you get to DEN. The CA side is fairly senior so I'd recommend moving to MSP or DTW for two or three years and live the good life on both sides of the cockpit.

 

I take a moderate stance myself. Worldwide (or more likely just Asia) we will experience acute pilot shortages for the next decade and a half. Here at home, accelerated career progression. I've learned to be happy with the prospect of career progression rather than wanting all out chaos. Even though the ratio of postitions to candidates is likely more favorable than its been in decades, the fact remains it is a lucrative profession that beats out many other careers the modern economy offers and therefore will always have a healthy level of interest. I seriously doubt regionals will close up shop until it makes financial sense for the majors to bring all that flying back in house. A new airframe could do that ? Or increased competition from LCCs but I doubt staffing will force a major overhaul of the business model, just modest wage adjustments like we are seeing at 9E. I bet the wages at 9E will be adequate to attract candidates for years to come.

 

I don't think Endeavor is having any trouble hiring.

 

Of course they will...

 

Mainline standards have dropped like a rock. FO to FO, no problem. No degree, no problem. Less than 1,000 CA time, no problem. No type rating, no problem. No 121 time, no problem.

SWA revises their numbers for this year from 800 hires to 1,000. SWA, Delta, United are all predicting big hire classes next year. Those pilots have to come from somewhere. Mainline airlines will hire the equivalent of all the SkyWest pilots just next year alone.

There isn’t a shortage of mainline applicants because that is where corporate, military, and regional jet pilots are applying.

 

Lol....that would be sweet, but unfortunately not anywhere near true.

 

Not all of those together. But, individually, these are not requirements any longer.

 

Yes they are for most people. May (likely) change, but not yet.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the people getting hired sans one of those things are still an outlier.