Regional Airline Profile

Pilot Demand

Updated: 2019-08-03

The Regional Airline Pilot demand are dependant on a number of factors.

• The number of pilots being pulled from Destination airlines(Majors).
• The size of the Regional Airline pilot pool. The larger the regional airline sector, the slower the draw.
• The growth pattern of the regional airlines.

Knowing this, it is important to realize this data is only as good as its completness.

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Aircraft Order and Retirement Schedule

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Pilot Hiring Graphs/Table

Number of Pilots: 404 --- Pilot/Aircraft Ratio: 11.5

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Percent Seniority Junior is a helpful tool in determining approximate upgrade time. For example if someone where to get hired to today the point on the chart where it reaches 50% would be their approx upgrade year.

For someone who gets hired in 5 years they only need to look at 50% senioty change to determine their upgrade year. For example in 5 years when they get hired, the chart might say 30%, at which point they need to look further down to find an additional 50% worth of movement (80% on the chart) to determine their approximate upgrade.

For a current FO who has been with the company 3 years, and has about 15% of the pilot group junior to them, they need to look and see how long it will take from today to move an additional 35% in Seniority to get to our average upgrade point(50%)

 

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Upgrade/50% Seniority Calculator

Planned Hire or Actual Hire Year Already Hired 2020 2021	Current % Seniority From Bottom Not Hired Yet 0 3 5 8 10 13 15 18 20 23 25 28 30 33 35 38 40 43 45 48
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