Originally Posted by
Velocipede
Forced through? The difference this time is that foreign pilots are operating in U.S. airspace TODAY over age 60. The driver here is the basic unfairness that U.S. pilots are being denied the privileges of operating in U.S. airspace while foreign pilots are allowed to.
Americans (even politicians) won't stand for that kind of inequity.
Let's see....right now foreign pilots can fly US passengers without being subjected to the same drug tests that US pilots are.....foreign carriers can fly with combis with cargo in the back and pax up front (opposite FARs)...Air France allows their pilots to have a glass of wine with dinner....yeah there is inequity...so what. If a 60 year old US pilot still wants to fly let him/her fly for Air Mozambique or Emerates...just not UAL or NWA etc! Ripper