Originally Posted by Scoop

NAHHHH,

ALPA is too busy trying to keep Pilot minimums as low as possible to help DCI management. After all, if Congress, despite ALPAs resistance, were to raise minimums, Pilot compensation might have to rise and we wouldn't want that, would we?

I guess ALPA was absent the day they taught supply and demand in school.

Scoop


From todays ALPA blast:

ALPA, joined by Airlines for America and the Regional Airline Association, wrote FAA Acting Administrator Huerta to urge the agency to grant flight-hour credit to current pilots based on their airline training and experience as they draft new regulations to raise certification standards for newly hired airline pilots. This flexibility is important to ALPA pilots who have been flying for a CONSIDERABLE (Really?) amount of time, but who may not meet the requirements needed to possess an airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate. An ATP certificate will be required by law for all pilots in FAR 121 operations effective August 2, 2013.
Granting experienced and professional pilots credit for their training and employment experience will allow them to qualify for a new “restricted” ATP that will ensure ALPA pilots remain in the air and do not experience a break in employment as a result of the new rules.
ALPA also urged the FAA to act quickly and issue a final rule on the ATP requirement before August 1, 2013. Read the letter.