American has 150 regional aircraft it can deploy because of an ongoing pilot shortage.
proposes about a 21% pay raise for this year on top of back-dated raises going back to 2020. He said the airline has done a nice job of being efficient and is seeing a large number of pilots that are interested in becoming first officers.
“American Airlines was an industry leader in getting regional pilot wages to a level that it can really attract new talent from a broad set of communities in the airline business,” Isom said. “We did that and it’s produced the kind of interest in aviation that we had hoped.”number of captains flowing out of the regional airlines to the mainlines.
Isom said American has put in contractual provisions and incentives that allow the company to build up jobs over time. Isom said a lot of pilots have left the industry and retired, so it has taken time to find replacements. Regardless, he thinks American has the best quality of life to offer pilots. “It’s a matter of economics,” Isom said. “It’s a matter of quality of life. I think the kinds of things that have been done both from a regional perspective at American and a mainline perspective with the new agreement in principle, they address those kinds of issues.”
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