Originally Posted by
atpcliff
Cabotage means foreign airlines.they need pilots.the US has THE MOST excess pilots of any county....if a foreign airline is going to replace a us airline they will need us pilots, as the overseas shortage is much, much worse than the us shortage.
This is true, but if we allow foreign operators to originate and terminate flights within the US using their pilots we will eventually be cut out of the job market. Foreign airlines can hire people from zero time and be operational in 300 or so hours, and this is the problem with allowing cabotage. Their candidates are younger, smarter, and work harder than Americans do because they are hungrier. In the USA we think we are a big deal, and historically we have been because we have been so rich for so long, but that is changing quickly. It will take years but we can never allow cabotage to be a reality.