Airfares have probably peaked. The major airlines will catch up with the early pilot retirement programs they instituted with covid in 2020 and will start pushing more capacity into the system next spring. They will also cut back hiring in the fall which will allow the regionals to breath a bit but there are no long term solutions to that problem. The volume of pilot retirements will keep them fighting over a limited pool of pilots. The pool is limited because managements took advantage of pilot surpluses in past years and refused to pay anything close to a livable wage. Not to many people were interested in entering a profession where you are gone 18 days a month and making 21,000 a year. The regional pilot shortage is managements Frankenstein that they created. Now they have to live with it. Sadly it’s going to impact routes like SJU to EIS for a long time to come. With the recent large pay raises at the regionals more people will enter the profession but that’s 5 or 6 years out.