CanadaAir wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:22 am
Regional air carrier Pacific Coastal Airlines is ending direct flights between Cranbrook’s Canadian Rockies International Airport and Vancouver as of April 28.
The company has cited a shortage of pilots and aircraft maintenance crews along with challenges linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9557309/paci ... ights/amp/
Similar to EVAS. Pacific Coastal would rather cancel routes and cut their business than pay more to attract new pilots and retain experienced ones.
If they had invested in pilots, they would have them to operate in the current time of high demand for air travel.
Management decides to make less revenue instead.
Bottom line, historically companies just have to ride out the difficult times to get back to a hiring cycle that favours the company!
None of them want to saddle themselves with a very expensive contract when the inevitable downturn arrives, depending on how deep the recession goes, one of the big US carriers might not survive, at the very least they will enter Chapter 11.
This will cycle through all of them as the first one out will have a big cost advantage, look at the big picture here, they are all competing for pilots, well to not lose them to the competition, these wages are not sustainable.
Perhaps they are all steering each other into failure to capitalize in the aftermath, I would like to see a wage catchup in Canada, not something that makes operations impossible.
I’m a self proclaimed realist but I do see some version of the above happening, so no, 590/hr for a widebody is not coming to Canada but flying a Saab should not be 36/hr behind inflation, that’s insulting, yes I realize the irony about Jazz starting wage to which I’ve never agreed with.
I stand by my opinion, pilots have a choice to accept these wages or say screw you!