The pilot shortage is over:
04-16-2024, 12:22 PM
#351
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I'd like to hear what your TX source has to say about the Mayorkas impeachment/possible tabling.
Here's an article that sums up the GOP's leverage (it's all about the 2024 elections): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/0...trial-00151371
This could be a non-issue tomorrow if Mayorkas simply resigns and I don't rule that out as a possibility, as it would eliminate the need for Sens Tester, Brown, Rosen and a few others to go on record on the subject. As of now, it looks like Mayorkas will remain in office with no indication of submitting his resignation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zUN4QWVJ0
Thank goodness Mayorkas is keeping the border secure.
Here's an article that sums up the GOP's leverage (it's all about the 2024 elections): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/0...trial-00151371
This could be a non-issue tomorrow if Mayorkas simply resigns and I don't rule that out as a possibility, as it would eliminate the need for Sens Tester, Brown, Rosen and a few others to go on record on the subject. As of now, it looks like Mayorkas will remain in office with no indication of submitting his resignation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zUN4QWVJ0
Thank goodness Mayorkas is keeping the border secure.
04-16-2024, 12:28 PM
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There are more passengers, not less. Are you predicting a dropoff in passenger travel that has yet to occur? Granted, it will happen at some point. Maybe tomorrow, but so far there's no sign of any reduction in passenger traffic.
04-16-2024, 01:16 PM
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Here are the latest TSA passenger volume numbers. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-volumes
There are more passengers, not less. Are you predicting a dropoff in passenger travel that has yet to occur? Granted, it will happen at some point. Maybe tomorrow, but so far there's no sign of any reduction in passenger traffic.
There are more passengers, not less. Are you predicting a dropoff in passenger travel that has yet to occur? Granted, it will happen at some point. Maybe tomorrow, but so far there's no sign of any reduction in passenger traffic.
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04-16-2024, 02:53 PM
#354
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The bottleneck for employment is soft cargo demand, unprofitable smaller airlines, and delays in aircraft deliveries driving a pilot surplus. Yes there is a surplus again. Applicant pools are full and poolies are waiting 7-9 months for class. You can add 2 years to that figure with 67. All WITHOUT a drop in demand. What am I missing?
1) pilots with multiple pink slips
2) pilots with less than 4000hrs
3) pilots with DUIs and are enrolled in HIMS
4) Pilots without a college degree
5) pilots with green cards
There's never a shortage of pilots. All you need to do is change minimum qualifications. And I don't know of any time that the minimum qualifications have been lower than now.
04-16-2024, 07:51 PM
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I'll believe the pilot shortage is over when airlines stop hiring
1) pilots with multiple pink slips
2) pilots with less than 4000hrs
3) pilots with DUIs and are enrolled in HIMS
4) Pilots without a college degree
5) pilots with green cards
There's never a shortage of pilots. All you need to do is change minimum qualifications. And I don't know of any time that the minimum qualifications have been lower than now.
1) pilots with multiple pink slips
2) pilots with less than 4000hrs
3) pilots with DUIs and are enrolled in HIMS
4) Pilots without a college degree
5) pilots with green cards
There's never a shortage of pilots. All you need to do is change minimum qualifications. And I don't know of any time that the minimum qualifications have been lower than now.
04-16-2024, 07:54 PM
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I'll believe the pilot shortage is over when airlines stop hiring
1) pilots with multiple pink slips
2) pilots with less than 4000hrs
3) pilots with DUIs and are enrolled in HIMS
4) Pilots without a college degree
5) pilots with green cards
There's never a shortage of pilots. All you need to do is change minimum qualifications. And I don't know of any time that the minimum qualifications have been lower than now.
1) pilots with multiple pink slips
2) pilots with less than 4000hrs
3) pilots with DUIs and are enrolled in HIMS
4) Pilots without a college degree
5) pilots with green cards
There's never a shortage of pilots. All you need to do is change minimum qualifications. And I don't know of any time that the minimum qualifications have been lower than now.
04-17-2024, 04:13 AM
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People like Juan Trippe of Pan Am and Howard Hughes of TWA had no intention of inaugurating a pilot shortage when they began buying jets in the late 1950s. But these whisper-quiet magic carpets caught on quickly with a newly affluent flying public, beginning an era of glamorous travel, with Sinatra crooning "Come Fly With Me" in the background. The airlines hired pilots as fast as they ordered jets. United famously hired zero-time college graduates and paid for their training—from scratch!
http://www3.alpa.org/portals/alpa/magazine/2001/Feb2001_ShortHistory.htm#:~:text=The%20jet%20boom% 20(1965–1968)&text=The%20airlines%20hired%20pilots %20as,with%20the%20coming%20of%20jets.
04-17-2024, 04:50 AM
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The jet boom (1965–1968)
People like Juan Trippe of Pan Am and Howard Hughes of TWA had no intention of inaugurating a pilot shortage when they began buying jets in the late 1950s. But these whisper-quiet magic carpets caught on quickly with a newly affluent flying public, beginning an era of glamorous travel, with Sinatra crooning "Come Fly With Me" in the background. The airlines hired pilots as fast as they ordered jets. United famously hired zero-time college graduates and paid for their training—from scratch!
http://www3.alpa.org/portals/alpa/magazine/2001/Feb2001_ShortHistory.htm#:~:text=The%20jet%20boom% 20(1965–1968)&text=The%20airlines%20hired%20pilots %20as,with%20the%20coming%20of%20jets.
People like Juan Trippe of Pan Am and Howard Hughes of TWA had no intention of inaugurating a pilot shortage when they began buying jets in the late 1950s. But these whisper-quiet magic carpets caught on quickly with a newly affluent flying public, beginning an era of glamorous travel, with Sinatra crooning "Come Fly With Me" in the background. The airlines hired pilots as fast as they ordered jets. United famously hired zero-time college graduates and paid for their training—from scratch!
http://www3.alpa.org/portals/alpa/magazine/2001/Feb2001_ShortHistory.htm#:~:text=The%20jet%20boom% 20(1965–1968)&text=The%20airlines%20hired%20pilots %20as,with%20the%20coming%20of%20jets.
04-17-2024, 03:31 PM
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Oh, you mean the lone congressman pushing his DL-pilot brother’s nepotistic self-interest? Who you probably think did a bang up job at the commerce committee meeting (to which he’s not even a member, but pushed his way in), where he was literally the only one to bring up 67, and came back to it again and again, 7 separate times? That guy?
Thats like taking Cousin Eddie’s word he’ll pay Clark back for buying his kids’ Christmas gifts…
Thats like taking Cousin Eddie’s word he’ll pay Clark back for buying his kids’ Christmas gifts…
04-17-2024, 03:54 PM
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Oh, you mean the lone congressman pushing his DL-pilot brother’s nepotistic self-interest? Who you probably think did a bang up job at the commerce committee meeting (to which he’s not even a member, but pushed his way in), where he was literally the only one to bring up 67, and came back to it again and again, 7 separate times? That guy?
Thats like taking Cousin Eddie’s word he’ll pay Clark back for buying his kids’ Christmas gifts…
Thats like taking Cousin Eddie’s word he’ll pay Clark back for buying his kids’ Christmas gifts…
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