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Do you always believe journalists?
Full article here:REPUBLIC AIRWAYS recently filed for bankruptcy, and hardly anyone noticed. That’s because hardly anyone has heard of Republic Airways. But many people unwittingly fly on it all the time. Republic operates flights for Delta Connection, United Express, and American Eagle—the big airlines’ affiliates for shorter and less popular routes. As many as half of all Delta-, United- and American-branded flights are actually outsourced to so-called regional airlines like Republic. If you’ve spent any time flying around the United States, you have probably flown with Republic or one of its equally obscure rivals.
The underlying problem behind Republic’s demise could soon affect other, more famous names. The carrier’s boss cited several reasons for the bankruptcy filing, but chief among them was the “grounding aircraft due to a lack of pilot resources”. Republic isn’t alone in struggling to find people to fly its planes. In October, another regional provider, Seaport Airlines, cut most of the routes it flies from its Memphis hub, due to a pilot shortage. SkyWest, which also operates flights for Delta, United and American, reduced its flight capacity last year as its president admitted the airline was “not immune” to pilot shortages.
Those outside the industry might be surprised by this. A common assumption is that piloting aircraft—with its high salaries, perks and glamour—must be one of the most compe ive professions there is. So what is going on? Aerospace types point to regulations enacted by Congress in 2013 that upped the minimum number of hours of pit experience a pilot must have in order to fly for a commercial airline, from 250 to 1,500. (Most commercial pilots used to come from the military, but they now come largely from aviation schools, where enrolment has dropped significantly in the past decade and a half.) That much training takes not only time, but also money. And while salaries at the big commercial airlines are compe ive, at the regionals new recruits can earn as little as $20,000. Consolidation among the big carriers has given them more negotiating power over their regional partners, making it harder for these smaller operators to raise wages.
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For now, the effects are mostly being felt on routes involving smaller planes and airports. But with the pipeline to the top pilot jobs shrinking, it is likely the major carriers will start to feel the effects. According to one analysis, in the next 20 years the supply of people to fly America's planes will meet just two-thirds of the demand. That could force the big operators to slash routes.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulli...03/pilot-light
How do you figure?
Do you always believe journalists?
yeah random, you in idiot.
Read the article if you wish to read the data underlying the claim.
No.
In this case however, the article deals with supply and demand, and the Economist as a publication tends to be rather accurate and truthful when it comes to well... economic things. It is reasonable to extend a fair amount of credence to their analysis.
next time use the proper channels before posting an article.
I just don't get Cobra's pseudo-intellectual cynicism. Disbelieving everything is as dumb as believing everything, IMO. Both are a sign of lazy thinking.
I"ll wait until it is on fox "news".
an article that hasn't been vetted by wc simply isn't legitimate.
would the moderators please delete this thread until randomguy learns the rules.
you just can't "randomly" post articles that haven't been vetted through the proper channels.
How often do you believe blogs?
yeah, how often?
finally randomguy has been outed.
Loud and clear, just like your riva turbo x.
they should reward new pilots with a riva turbo x as a signing bonus.
thanks for remembering. it means a lot to me.
As often as I find them credible. (?) Your point is what exactly?
It's gotta have context man.
Next time I will try to get the stamp of approval. I must change my ways. All that critical thinkin' is for lib s.
Feel free to refute this one. :facepalm
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