Lear70
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No one...Who then, should fly our jets?
For a while at least. That's the whole POINT. Until there's a TRUE shortage of pilots, and management can't just whipsaw the regionals around OR use "force majeure" clauses to screw the mainline pilots, nothing will change.
One group "grows a set", there's 4,000+ pilots waiting without a job to take their place. Until that basic surplus of cheap talent goes away (and we all know most pilots are too self-serving to resist taking a sub-par compensation flying job), OR the airlines get released from the restrictions of the RLA (unlikely), we're pretty much screwed.
The days of pilots having too much self-respect to whore themselves out are pretty much over. The "Me" generation in the right seats at most regionals right now isn't helping, either.
Personally, I'd LOVE to see a TRUE pilot shortage...