So you think we stand to collectively benefit from it costing the better part of a quarter million dollars to get a degree and ratings? How is pointing out that this is rediculous smack of "RAA" propaganda? And if I was so pro-RAA as you are lamely attempting to claim, why do I love to see the real time demise of the ACMI regional sector? Why do I want further (significant) scope restrictions on regional airlines? Why do I love to see the costs and pay at regionals go up as much as possile?

I absolutely do NOT want government subsidies for flight schools. "Education" (if you can call it that in so many cases) is past the breaking point of sanity and sustainability as it is because of government subsidies. Uncle Sugar throwing more entitlement/fake stimulus money at the problem is the LAST thing we need.

I'm talking about large airlines, who have a vested interest in at least having a supply of pilots, investing in experience based flight schools. You apparently don't understand that they are going to invest in flight training one way or the other. Right now they are hell bent on idiotic euro style "ab initio" all glass 6 figure "chosen one" flight schools, when what we need is experience. Experience that can (and should) be done in cheaper round dial GA trainers. Instead these MBA idiots are focused only on reducing the minimums and increasing the cost of training with their all glass insanity and a bunch of extremely expensive sims. If anyone is carrying the airline lobby's water its you.

You just don't want to admit it because you mistakenly want to believe that high costs to entry will usher in an era of pre-deregulation Cadillac a month prosperity. It won't. It will exacerbate the current crisis and dramatically increase the likelihood that we will see more subsidies for flight schools, lower ATP mins and/or an MPL system, none of which will translate into higher pilot pay in the long run. The next step beyond that if, of course, cabotage. If we don't achieve a training infrastructure to meet demand, we will be at the mercy of anyone else that does and it won't be pretty.

I'd like to see another, much stronger, General Aviation Revitalization Act passed, which would help fuel GA in general and flight training in particular not with subsidies, but with tort reform at the manufacturing and instructing levels. I want to see much stronger protections against the scum filth concept of cabotage. And we need to have a winning stratedgy to fight the dual subsidized foreign enemy airlines on all fronts.

It may be comforting to you to sit back, do nothing and think that the insane cost creep for education in general and pilot training in particular will automatically make it rain money for pilots and that's all we have to do for great success. That will not work.

You can disagree all you want, but please cease and desist with your baseless accusations that I'm pro-RAA. That organization is full of no talent hack scum bags and I'm loving the self imposed crisis they are in the midst of. I am against their attempts to lower minimums and get some MPL style ststem in this country. And I want to see a large chunk of their business taken away from them with improved mainline scope clauses, and those that try to go IndyAir II I want to see buried by the competition. You will find fewer people more against the RAA than me anywhere.

By the way its you that want to apparently do away with unions and seniority lists, which is one of the most anti-labor shill points of view in airline history. You will never, and I mean ever, get to slide on over to a legacy mainline one single number above the most junior pilot on property before you were hired. Ever. You want that, go to China. Have fun. You will never get that here.