Young pilots are often told that the Aviation Community is very small, and like that game, The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, we are all connected somehow. A few of the Pilots that I am connected to received good news that American Airlines has sent out recall notices to furloughed AA pilots asking them to come back and fly for American.
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There is no shortage these days of articles about the current shortage of qualified commercial pilots. I just read one on FlightGlobal.com that did a very good job of analyzing the circumstances surrounding the shortage by Airline authority Kit Darby
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In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal I found an article about the shortage of qualified that the Regional Airlines are suffering now, and how it will affect us all in the near future.
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SkyWest Inc., parent company of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet, reported profits of $20.9 million in the third-quarter of 2012. The airline also reported a net income of $20.9 million, up appreciably higher than the $116,000 profit reported in third-quarter a year ago.
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The airline industry still offers lucrative careers for those who are willing to pursue a flying career. There are entry level jobs that pay entry level wages of course, but anyone who is flying into their second year with an airline will enjoy an immediate increase in pay of four to five thousand dollars per year, and yearly increases after that. Once a pilot is ready to upgrade to Captain, a forty percent increase in pay will be the reward.
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There have been a lot of articles about the future of the airline industry. Most point to the rate of growth in the industry, the number of planes which will be delivered to the industry and of course the pilot shortage that is the result of all that expansion.
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Third quarter profit at Republic Airways Holdings Inc. soared 186 percent from a year earlier in the wake of restructuring its Frontier Airlines unit, the Indianapolis-based company announced late Wednesday.
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