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20 points·thunderbong··4 comments

> “I think the pilot crisis that the planet is facing is real,” Neumann said. “You know it’s a very global world and airplanes are critical, but there’s just not enough pilots…”

I’ve heard this for years. And yet I’ve also seen what new pilots get paid slogging it on regionals before they can make it into the majors. And it just doesn’t add up. There are clearly enough pilots to treat and pay them like dirt.

Pilots are like Air Force fighter pilots. If you can go to school to become one you would and everyone would love to be one. The former is less selective than the latter.

> Pilots are like Air Force fighter pilots. If you can go to school to become one you would

You can go to school to become a pilot, and lots of people who could don't. The school is expensive, and so is pleasure flying, and even if you like flying you may not like flying as a job, just like anything else people like doing for fun.

There was a shortage but it was only for very high time First Officers and Captains. The Middle East and Asia was poaching them for quite awhile with very lucrative packages.

The supply of low-time pilots is typically high, thus the need to slog it in the regionals for low pay while building time.

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