In this video if you couldn't figure it out from the photo, I'm gonna be talking about the pilot shortage and
hopefully my opinion doesn't piss off too many people coming up in the
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What's going on? Welcome back. If you're new to my channel, my name is Kelsey. I'm a 747 pilot. This channel is all about aviation
Consider subscribing in this video. I'm gonna talk about worldwide what's happening with the pilot charge whether it's real or fake
The obvious first area I want to talk about is in the US right now you're having if they're at the regional level
Let's say five years ago compared to now a lot of the new pilots are getting probably
Double the pay that they were getting a few years ago play him
Play that man his money
What's happening is the regional airlines are offering bonuses
They're offering
Signing bonuses retention bonuses to stay there doing all kinds of things to get guys to come
They're offering free hotels at one point. They did double occupancy during training, which means you shared a room with another dude
Are you are you serious? Which is
Super awkward, but it's not happening like that anymore. It's single occupancy. So those are some scenarios that are happening at a regional level
I have friends who are in their early
20s who have less than 3,000 hours total time less than a thousand hours
airline captain time
commonly referred to as
Turbine pea I see and those guys are getting hired right now to go fly at legacy Airlines
Your legacy airlines are gonna be Delta American and United things like that. You're also having those guys get hired at Southwest and JetBlue
You're having guys with a lot less experience that five years ago. Never would have had a chance to even get in there
So that's what's happening here in the US. Let's go to Asia five six years ago. I would get emails from
Different Chinese carrier saying hey come and work here. We'll pay you
$250,000 after taxes
Lot of money right now. The emails are saying 350 and kind of hinting at
400,000 I was flying with a guy a couple weeks ago who was a triple 7 captain there in Asia in China?
At the end of his three-year contract he was saying yeah
I don't think I'm one of her new I don't this isn't really for me or for my family and
That that carrier was offering him. I would say he said 50 or 60 thousand dollars just to stay there and
do another couple years there's a huge change that's happening over there as well where they're having the
Huge middle-class growth and they're having a lot of shortage for pilots with experience. Obviously
You need to have jet P I see experience in order to get those jobs going into the Middle East recently
I saw an article that talked about at Thea
Lending pilots to Emirates because they couldn't keep enough pilots to cover all to cover all their flying now
I've talked to guys that have flown in Emirates and out and are flying at Emirates
They say it's changed a lot over the last few years where so many guys have left there
to go back to their home country and have a better quality of life and what that's done is
Emirates hasn't been able to hire as many people which means they're working the pilots a lot harder than they used to
That's causing more people to leave. It's kind of a vicious circle that the rent right now
I have a friend of mine that I fly with now and I flew with him together at the retails actually
He several years ago had went there and applied. Obviously. He didn't get hired
but after a couple years
Just recently
He was telling me that they'd send him an email saying hey if you want to come back here and interview again
You don't want to do all the preliminary testing. Just come on back over here to Dubai
We'll do an interview and you know, that's another scenario where you're seeing
obviously
They're not able to get and retain and keep the amount of pilot set that they're used to having
So they're so now they're reaching back to people who had applied or that were rejected and offering them to come back again
I know a guy who was there and quit in the middle of his contract
Apparently that used to be like a death sentence and you would never be able to go back there
but he got called and offered to go back and fly in there things are changing and
things that used to be black and white are now becoming gray as far as
who they're willing to hire where they weren't willing to hire a guy with this experience or who had
Left now, they're starting to do that in South America. Here's another example early in my career
I was trying to get out into a Boeing or Airbus aircraft. I have a lot of friends in Colombia
It's a place that I really enjoyed going. I used to visit there a lot
so I went there and I did all the things that they wanted me to do to get my license converted and
Apply and I never heard anything from them fast forward to two months ago. I got a call from a good friend of mine
That's down there. You'd actually sent me a link that one of the carrier's down. There was there
Specifically looking to hire foreign pilots that come and work there and that's just again due to the shortage of pilots that they have
Obviously all these jobs are talking about guys with some years of experience
It's not a 250 our pilot, but that's just showing you what the opportunities are out there
The last option I'll tell you about is just in in Europe in general, you know, five six years ago
I remember reading a lot of places they were charging guys to
get I
Think they called it line training you had to pay for your own type on a 7-3 or an Airbus you had to pay for
several hundred hours of
monitored flying and these airlines were
Charging. I don't know. I think it was something like forty or fifty thousand dollars
whoa
but in order to get time and type because you needed to have time in the
aircraft in order to get hired by a lot of places
so these companies were
charging all this money
So you could go get a couple hundred hours in the aircraft so you could apply to get a job somewhere more and more
I'm seeing those types of industries closing their doors because their people are able to get jobs a lot easier
maybe you have to start off on a smaller aircraft an ATR or
Something like that guys are able to get jobs where five or six years ago
They weren't able to even get an entry-level job flying an rj
c rj or an e rj one of the smaller 70 seater aircrafts that
Are that they're flying they they wouldn't even be able to go get those jump. Those jobs are getting filled because
Those pilots are obviously moving on to larger aircraft
so those are some of the scenarios that i'm seeing that are going on right now in my opinion what you're having is
You're having a shortage of pilots but more a shortage of pilots with
Experience if you're coming through or you're considering going through flight school right now
I think your opportunities are really endless of what what could happen the next five to 10 years
I look at where the job situations were five years ago compared to now and it's night and day now
That's not to say something in five more years. It couldn't get worse because of some economic crash or
Generally speaking the overall trend the last five years has been
Dramatically in the favor of pilots where airlines are paying more you're getting guys
Where they're leaving their current airline to go to their dream airline?
I've known guys that were out
For example flying at Delta and they always wanted to go to FedEx and are leaving Delta to go to FedEx
Five years ago, you would never have done that people are at that airline. Great. I'm just happy I'm here
I don't ever want to leave so more and more what you're seeing is the demand for these pilots are increasing
Exponentially until they're able to figure out another solution like flying single pilot aircraft or drona aircraft
Which I don't know about you
I personally wouldn't want to sit in a tube with 300 other people knowing that there's a robot is
The only thing that's driving it you should be flying his plane these planes fly themselves. This baby's a
technological marvel
I
Don't think that that's gonna be something that's gonna be happening in the very near future
So if you're feeling discouraged as you're going through flight school right now and what are my options man?
Your options are a lot better than what I came out of flight school
And I really think it's only gonna be improving from here
Okay crew that's my opinion of what I think is happening with the pilot shortage and the comments below
Let me know if you could work for any airline anywhere in the world. What airline it would be
I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up