ATP Cliff wrote:
"Currently, the US is the only place (maybe a few excess pilots in Australia) with some excess pilots."
How are you defining "pilot"? In Canada you still have guys lining up for jobs on the ramp (where they spend usually a year to 2 years doing grunt labor before they are made an FO on a Navajo or King Air).
You also got guys lining up around the block for jobs at Air Canada that pay a grand wopping $38,000 per year.
In Europe you have no shortage of guys paying huge sums of money to buy type ratings, and then paying to work for free via hour building schemes.
What's the average salary of regional FO in the US? Has it broken the McDonald's night shift manager level yet?
Seriously, it's nice to see hiring, but let's not get carried away and let's keep it in context...
And remember, we're still dealing with aviation... things in aviation have a way of changing over night... Or have we forgot about 9-11 already?