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Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots
U.S. airlines are facing what threatens to be their most serious pilot shortage since the 1960s, with higher experience requirements for new hires about to take hold just as the industry braces for a wave of retirements. (online.wsj.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
60K for college 70k for flight school. 15K to instruct. 20K to fly for a regional. 10 yrs before u make even a baeely livable salary under crushing debt at twice the rates of a mortgage and then some.. no shortage here, just a shortage of blind idiots willing to fall for the scam the regionals created. Now 1500 hr rule and 15 to 20 yrs to a major airline job.. used to be 3 or 4.. hopefully this changes. No reason a pilot should make less than a cab or bus driver or even a pizza delivery guy.
I know that's right....I finally came to the fact that I couldn't justify worrying myself about finishing up....heck I make 40k fueling trucks....if things change I'll come banging down the doors in a heart beat but until then I am just going to enjoy my family hopefully finish up one day.
Dan,you nailed it friend.I started at the Fixed Base here in 83 and left in 2010.This has been known for years.Yet the FAA has done nothing to make it better.To expensive to earn a commercial then and worse now.I watched those boys and girls and boys struggle so hard working 2 jobs and then trying to instruct to get needed hours.
2 things need to happen as I see it,1 is raise the retirement age and 2 reduce hours needed for right seat time.Training these days is much better than back 30and to 40the years ago for there have been many lessons learned.Just my thoughts.
2 things need to happen as I see it,1 is raise the retirement age and 2 reduce hours needed for right seat time.Training these days is much better than back 30and to 40the years ago for there have been many lessons learned.Just my thoughts.
Raising the retirement age has it's limits. What would they raise it to? 65 is already old, 70 is really old!
Well, there were a lot of good folks got put to pasture early at 60. They raised it to 65 just before I retired, but mine and a whole bunch of other guys retirements and transitions were already planned. I fortunatly have had some opportunity to continue on to 65 but I really wonder about past that. His theory is good but whether practical application would work or not would be the thing. You can ask me about that 70 business in a couple of more years.
I can speak to it now. If you can pass the physical and other requirements every 6 months or a year, then what does something arbitrary like age have to do with it. Age is a social limit. I've seen folks get OLD at 40 and I've seen young guys at 70. Leadership doesn't necessarily mean heavy lifting.
Ya want good people, you gotta pay um. This new idea that no body is supposed to make a profit is nonsense. Doctors and nurses spend a lot of time and money to qualify to practice, so too pilots and other professionals. If you can't make enough money to pay back loans and compensate you for time spent learning and training then, it's not going to foster an increase in the number of available professionals. Prices will go up and availability will go down. Not much different from gasoline and jet fuel
Ya want good people, you gotta pay um. This new idea that no body is supposed to make a profit is nonsense. Doctors and nurses spend a lot of time and money to qualify to practice, so too pilots and other professionals. If you can't make enough money to pay back loans and compensate you for time spent learning and training then, it's not going to foster an increase in the number of available professionals. Prices will go up and availability will go down. Not much different from gasoline and jet fuel
I know that feelin'as far as the age thing goes. After enjoying 6 months or so here at the house, I am ready to get back in the air on a regular basis. My wife has said she took me for better or worse, not for lunch. While I have kinda enjoyed it, I have bad upset her daily routine and even the dog looks at me funny now cause I'm here all the time.
I wonder how Tom Lau's views will change when he turns 55 or 60. 70 won't look so "really old", I'll bet ya. :-)
"for better or worse, not for lunch" love that!