Originally Posted by
unitedflyier
The railway labor act is out of date and needs to go. If you want a free market then it needs to be truly free. If not re-regulate.
Amen brotha- first I would like to see a truly de-regulated industry, but that will never happen. The RLA ammendment will never happen either because the industry and ALPA both take advantage of it to their benefits while leaving us to suffer the consequences.
Originally Posted by
unitedflyier
We need to restrict the number of pilots coming into the industry by making it harder to get a license. Higher academic and experience standards. We need to regain public respect for the profession. Then let supply and demand take it's toll. Pay and conditions will improve. If we keep making it easier and accepting lower standards, pay and conditions will continue to fall.
I believe that is how the law and medical industries run things, but the economic benefits of cheap air travel far outweigh a truly valued supply/demand relationship of pilots and management. The startup business in BUF can grow because of cheap travel and access to venture capital in BOS, SFO, ORD, etc. We subsidize that through depressed wages/benefits at the cost of a few thousand pilots, compared to the booming industries that we indirectly support.