Originally Posted by
hoss
They are unable to crew them, no takers! You can’t blame the new guys, knowing you could be stuck on the fleet for a long time. They will only allow 10% of the ATR pilots to transition to B737 per year. It was MD’s answer to stabilise the fleet. I think it may have backfired.
They offloaded the ATR flying to Alliance well before there was a crew shortage. Uncertainty about the fleet’s future kicked off the initial exodus from the ATR.