It looks like the 1500 hour rule is working
Some small airlines are raising wages. Silver Airways, a Florida-based airline with 35 planes, said last week that it is offering 10% raises to its co-pilots, 5% raises to its captains, and $6,000 bonuses to existing pilots who stay for a year.
Other carriers are resorting to different tactics. Great Lakes Aviation Ltd. of Cheyenne, Wyo., said it has 100 pilots, down from 300 just a year ago. It is removing 10 seats from a handful of its 19-seat planes to operate them under different Federal Aviation Administration rules that require pilots to have just 250 hours of experience.
"We have absolutely no ability to attract résumés" from pilots with 1,500 hours of flight time, said Doug Voss, chairman of Great Lakes, whose pilot salaries start at around $16,500 a year..
But Great Lakes Aviation
I wonder why they lost 200 pilots and no one wants to work for them lol