I'm assuming a lot of people on FT know about why there is a growing pilot shortage in the US, but I fail to see the point of QX pilots ragging on Tilden in the Seattle Times for failing to address it (if that turns out to be true).
Tilden has wildly screwed up the company's response to the cancellations, sure, but this isn't just a QX problem. They are merely the first airline to experience what is going to become an epidemic within a decade. Most of that centers on the fact that they are a largely turboprop airline, and regional pilots hate turboprops when trying to get a job at the mainline jet carriers.
Guaranteed: if nothing changes, by 2030 every single regional carrier is going to be having staffing issues and the mainlines will start to suffer as well until the industry changes the way it conducts training/costs, or if Congress reduces the hour requirements again which it probably will.
Domestic air traffic is growing at a record pace, pilot supply isn't keeping anywhere close. Something has got to give or its only going to get worse and not just at QX. This editorial should be to the FAA, Congress, and the lobbyists too, not just Tilden.