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Looming Pilot Shortage Lowering the Bar???--Article

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Let's look at the requirements in general:

Degree - you can buy that

Certificates - can be bought

ratings - for sale

experience - can't be bought

The only part of the equation that can't be financed by rich parents or bad student loans is being tossed by the regionals. It sure as he!! isn't coming out of their pockets.

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Vote Democrat.....let me guess this message will be pulled because the republican Flightinfo monitors will pull it. Pay 10 dollars for a blog web site with all sorts of revenue driven ads on it.....spells greed and republican.

Yes the Dems are incapable of greed - it's impossible. They are truly for the working man. That is why King Hillary sat on the board of China-Mart, I mean, Wal-Mart (until it became a political albatross).

Getting back to the original thread...employers will pay whatever they think they can get away with. If there are no takers they will either up the ante or not play at all. Very similar to what we do in our personal lives with the exception of paying taxes.
 
Welcome to the U.S. airline industry, a step below the auto industry and hanging on for dear life with the other under performing industries. I say sell it.
 
Though the issue isn't an airline one. The FAA mandates the requirements for being a pilot. If isn't safe for a 250hr pilot to be flying a jet then there should be regulatory changes. The airlines are hiring qualified (by FAA standards) pilots, the problem is those standards are pretty low.
 
Yeah, that's another good point. Not even counting Age 65, if we were to enter a recessionary period in the near future in the U.S. (not that I'm predicting one- I think "experts" have predicted 13 of the last 3 recessions he-he) that would most certainly kill any "pilot shortage" as well.
 
And just think with over 10,000 hours I could not get an interview with AE in 1996 because I did not have 500 hours in the last year. I only had around 400 hours in MEL turbine. I probalby would not have worked there anyway. Oh to be 33 again just getting out of the Navy.
 
When talking about the Airline industry it is important to remember that you must throw all rational concepts of good business out the window.
 
Yeah, that's another good point. Not even counting Age 65, if we were to enter a recessionary period in the near future in the U.S. (not that I'm predicting one- I think "experts" have predicted 13 of the last 3 recessions he-he) that would most certainly kill any "pilot shortage" as well.

Ualdriver, although quotes like that play well on CNBS, they're not based in reality. You will actually find that economists are very hesitant to call a recession because it has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The unwinding of the housing bubble is wreaking havoc on the credit markets. Risk premiums are shooting through the roof. Hedge funds, SIVs, banks, mutual funds, etc are trying to unwind their leverage. That is going to cause severe liquidity contraction. The economy is only starting to unwind; it's going to get much, much worse.
If you own a house, I highly recommend selling and renting for the next few years. It will save you a lot of money because housing prices have quite a way to fall. Shiller's calling for a 30% drop in housing prices; I think that he's being optimistic.

If you're into the stock market, I'd recommend parking it in short term government securities for a while. It's gonna get ugly.
 
Getting back to the original thread...employers will pay whatever they think they can get away with. If there are no takers they will either up the ante or not play at all. Very similar to what we do in our personal lives with the exception of paying taxes.

Spoken like a simplistic fool.....there are other factor involved.....Like I said give the unions back their leverage, fix the RLA at a least and overturn recently passed anti-union legislation enacted over the last 7 years. Then companies won't have a choice but to work with us or risk losing all shareholder equity with a shutdown.
 

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