Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
If the whole story is based on that sentence, all of this seems like a reach. It's too vague to be definitively saying anything about changing ATP requirements.
We need to make aviators more scarce, similar to doctors. A bigger barrier to entry will do that, and that's exactly what 1500 hours combined with increased training costs is. The free market will do its thing, and we should see pilot wages increase over years or decades. If they revoke 1500 (they won't, they'd do an MPL first), how about instead we establish a minimum pilot wage in light of the RLA neutering our negotiating abilities. Wishful thinking, I know.
If wages ever increase you can expect the number of pilots needed on the property to decrease as well as benefits. This is one of the many reasons I will never assume the responsibilities of a chief pilot or dir. of ops. again anywhere. I am through being someone else's b...h!