Originally Posted by
Counselor
Gonna be a disaster. In 2007-2009 when Eagle was hiring at 300-400 TT, they couldn't get bodies in the door. Eagle's pilot forum would report every Monday how many actually showed up for newhire FO classes. If it was tough to get bodies at 400 TT, what's going to happen when age-65 retirements create vacancies at majors, but regionals can only fill their places with 1500-hour ATP's?
+1. I'm sure something will happen to weaken the bill. All the people for HR5900 and increasing the mins can moan and complain all the want. But in DC, money talks. You'd have to be an idiot to think that the RAA, regional airlines (and majors) won't do everything they can ($$) and make sure the requirements stay lower. Not because cheap labor is better for business, but they need to make sure they have a steady flow of bodies coming in to fly their airplanes. Washington reacted with a bill to help safety, but when the airlines start screaming that they won't have bodies to fly their airplanes, Washington is going react to that as well.