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Now the key to getting out of JetBlue is connections. Not PIC time.
Simple math with sophomoric assumptions and forecsts 6 years out performed by a simpleton is dangerous to other pilots careers. I'm sure you have a multi colored delivery schedule poster for B6 on the back of your bedroom door and you show it to all your friends (your mommy) and say "see I'll be a CA in 2018 and Brenda will have to like me now".
Still waiting for your explaination of supply and demand and seniority system.
How does it affect wages for the number 1 777 CA at CAL since FedEx is hiring.
Come on junior after you eat the PBJ your mommy packed for your lunch use your XBox and look it up.
More name calling......sorry, you're still an idiot. On top of that, you still don't get it.
Connections have ALWAYS been the key, which is obviously why you are still here. I wouldn't write a pathetic, worthless person like you a recommendation or walk into the Chief Pilot's office for you for anything.
Since I have nothing better to do at this point, let me break it down in a way that it might be at least slightly possible for your microscopic little brain to understand.
We'll use the following regionals as our measuring stick, as their group is representative of pretty much every regional pilot in the country:
American Eagle
Republic
GoJet
TSA
Mesa
Horizon
PSA
Piedmont
Skywest
Expressjet/ASA
Air Wisconsin
Comair
Compass
Great Lakes
Commutair
Pinnacle
If you total every single pilot currently on their seniority lists now, according to APC, you end up with 19,764 pilots.
Now let's assume that 50% of them are captains with PIC time, (the real number is more like 45% or so, but we'll be optimistic). That leaves 9,882 airline pilots with PIC time.
Now, you take the retirement numbers at DL, WN, (I know there's not many there), FEDEX, UPS, AA/USAir, UniCal. We know the numbers start slow, and by about 2018 they are all going to be losing 700+ a year, with the exception of WN. Hiring generally lags about a year or two behind the retirement numbers, because of things like early outs, filling bids, planning, etc.
So, we take a conservative number of 700 a year, multiply it by 5 'mega carriers' as Barger likes to say, that makes 3500 pilots needed per year, not counting WN, early outs, medical outs, people leaving for other reasons, or anything. So what does that mean?
Well, if you take those numbers, and EVERY SINGLE CAPTAIN AT ALL THOSE AIRLINES left, you'd burn through it in about 3 years.
I'll say it again: EVERY SINGLE CURRENT REGIONAL CAPTAIN IS HIRED TO A LEGACY IN ABOUT 3 YEARS TIME IF THEY HIRED ALL OF THEM.
We're not even counting lifers that don't leave, don't apply, fck up the interview, go to places like Allegiant, Spirit, JetBlue, Virgin, overseas to Cathay or Emirates, etc. etc. etc.
The point is, the competitive qualifications right now are high, but they won't be that way forever. The 4 year degree requirement will vanish. The need for an internal rec will vanish. Eventually, the need for PIC will vanish, especially if you have a connection or 2.
So in conclusion, you are still an idiot. 'Sophomoric assumptions' give way to simple math, and conservative math at that, not even counting the other X factors I mentioned.
I doubt you even know what 'sophomoric' means. Now go back to your sad, angry little existence brought on by your stupidity, lack of personality, and inability to accept the poor life decisions you have made. Continue posting on this board in your vain attempt to make everybody as miserable as you are, calling people things like 'junor' because you lack the intelligence to refute what they say with those unfortunate little things called facts.
Enjoy the rest of your career at JetBlue. My advice to you is to make the most of it, because with your complete lack of anything useful to society, I highly doubt you'll ever be anywhere else.