Losing it's Luster

[ualdriver]

Next one coming in 2012, it is already starting

To be followed by the great furlough of 2014. Hopefully the guys hired in the "hiring boom" of 2012 are ready for it.

 

[JetFumes]

As Avbug says there is never a pilot shortage, however as pilotyip says there are experience shortages which happens during hiring booms. Next one coming in 2012, it is already starting

Did you just speak of yourself in third person............um....ok then.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Two points....

Pilots who call themselves professionals are for certain ready to claim the benefits, yet seem to be lacking any effort to take the required responsibility.

We don't know how to value something without putting a price on it. Therefore, flight safety and professionalism are commodified....

 

[pilotyip]

?????????????

Did you just speak of yourself in third person............um....ok then.

Did I, you, them say that?

 

[FLYLOW22]

I'm ready to do what it takes to get it back.

Please contact me when the rest of you figure it out.

Regards,

 

[maru657]

How is it already starting? Jetblue got 1800 applications in a few days. All well qualified pilots.

Well qualified? By who's standards? The Colgain pilots were supposedly well trained and qualified but training depts do apearantly teach pulling back on the stick or attempting to hold altitude at all costs. They don't teach this during iceing conditions with fatigue thrown in as a factor. Here's the point, de-regulation meant this was always going to be a race to the bottom with nothing allowed to interfere with income especially training costs or searching for pilots with a wide range of experience, that in itself may be one of the most costly efforts an airline experiences during the hiring process. Actually searching out pilots with enough experience to understand and have experienced first hand the iceing process. It's always cheaper to just say "Joe" has a degree in advanced basket weaving and consequintly will make a better pilot. However, as a parallel, let's de-regulte the medical profession and allow strictly for profit companies to decide how well trained any medical doctor must be.