The big challenge now, according to Adam White of Alaska Airmen’s Association, is getting young pilots to stay in Alaska. He says many regional flight operators are starting to offer better employment benefits and higher pay to try and solve that problem.
for applicants who agree to fly for the company or for sister carrier Horizon Air once they graduate. The Seattle-based carrier did not respond to multiple requests for an interview.
And there’s another problem — more than a thousand-hour experience gap from the time a pilot gets his or her commercial license until they can work for an airline. “Sometimes they’re staying 6 months now because they’ve been able to get enough experience that now they have an opportunity to talk to an airline and the airline will bring them on much sooner than what they would have two, three, five years ago,” White said.
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