Twisted Mind
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Unions restrict supply, thereby causing spot shortages at the places they represent, this allows higher wages temporarily until market forces make that airline non-competitive. BTW many on this site say there never have been and never will be a pilot shortage. However being on the hiring end I can personally attest to the fact there have been wild experience shortages.
When your airline personally experienced those "wild experience shortages," what was your compensation structure compared to other airlines? Maybe your airline experienced "wild experience shortages" because the total compensation package offered by your airline was insufficient to attract the large pool of qualified, experienced pilots that were readily available?
During good economic times, I am sure may restaurateurs have a hard time hiring dish washers and bus boys at the wages they are willing to pay them. That doesn't mean there is a shortage of dish washers and bus boys in America. It just means that there is a shortage of people willing to work for low wages. Raise the dishwasher/bus boy wage, and you'll have all the dishwasher/bus boys you could ever need.
No, it is not.Whatever. A shortage is a shortage, however you slice it.
Whatever. A shortage is a shortage, however you slice it. The fact is that it will be difficult to hire people within the next 2 years. This shortage will not affect wages, but it will affect which companies can stay in business operating aircraft.
No, it is not.
A shortage of pilots willing to work for regional airline compensation does NOT correlate to a shortage of pilots able to work.
Think about it...in the last "shortage" (2006-2007) there wasn't any shortage of pilots applying to work at DAL, NWA, UAL, CAL, SWA, FDX, UPS, Netjets, etc...
Using that logic, I'm going to put an ad for guys to come out and do my yard work. I'm going to pay them $1/hour. When no one answers my ad, I'm going to post an editorial in the local paper and proclaim that there is a serious shortage of lawn care workers in my town!