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Can Bombardier’s Q400 Save Regional Air Service in the US?
America’s regional airlines are faced with an acute and worsening pilot shortage. The threat of the pilot shortage, combined with the pre-existing decline in the fortunes of small air travel markets, could see between 40 and 50 US airports wiped off the commercial airline route network in the United States. But the solution to these problems might already exist–in the form of Bombardier’s Q400 turboprop. (airchive.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think the pilot shortage has a lot more to do with the minimum wage type of pay for regional pilots. They can probably make more driving a cab! As far as prop planes, unfortunately there are a lot of people in the US that would rather not fly in anything that has a propeller.
There is no pilot shortage it is a salary shortage!
You are dead on the money there.. The regionals need to pay more money to be sure...
The 400 has a crap ton of power
Correction: Should read "Wages, certainly not". Wages have not kept up with the cost to enter the field, nor remain in it.
Shortage of pilots? I think not. It's the shortage of skill in those that enacted the rules that created the pilot shortage. It is the shortage of real pilots, versus those that only know how to push the right buttons. It is clearly important to know how to push the right buttons, but equally important to have basic hands on flying skills first and foremost. The accumulation of 1500 hrs does not make one a good pilot. It is how those hours were accumulated. Those same flying skills could, and have been for years, been acquired with a fraction of the hours now required. What changed? Entry cost, certainly. Wages, certainly. If you pay peanuts you get monkeys.