Endeavor Air
The well-known Minessota-based company Endeavor is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. The regional carrier had become increasingly known among airline companies as one of the best-paying airlines for beginner pilots, up until last year, when pilots at Piedmont Air but also Envoy Airlines secured enormous pay raises.
Pilots’ push for bigger wages came as an outcome of the airline’s struggles to hire and retain good pilots, which affected many flight operations, but also the number of routes airlines could offer to their customers.
Mesa Airlines
Mesa Air Group, a Phoenix-based company, is a regional carrier that operates flights for American Airlines, and also United Airlines. Regional carriers such as Mesa are currently dealing with their pilots being poached by bigger airlines, because of various labor shortages, and operational issues, as airlines and analysts have stated.
Mesa’s current CEO recently declared to Congress that its labor woes are “the biggest threat to the industry” that he has ever witnessed since 9/11. Now, there are around 3,600 Mesa employees, and the company’s representatives declared that it needs to hire hundreds of other pilots.
