Originally Posted by
Flying Ninja
People are doing that. Many high school student pilots I talk to have zero desire to chase the airline career. Number one answers as to why: pathetic pay, poor quality of life, and ROI. The word is out and it has reached to the high school level. The fall out is only going to get worse in future years. The 1500 ATP rule isn't going anywhere. Even if it does somehow get abolished or modified, the effects of that rule has already reached the high school level. The pilot career will be a game for trust fund babies, if they're even interested.
So the message is being sent. It's just going to take awhile for that message to be delivered and the realities of it sink in with airline managers. By that time, I'm going to bet it'll be way too late.
Sorry, but I disagree with you. That's what you would like to see, but it's simply not the reality.
The fact is, there are people that are willing to fly and get paid less. It's contributed to where the industry now is. Someone will always want to drive a bus with wings, even if it means going to college and taking on debt to do it.
Airline managers run their companies no differently than any other U.S. company, who's only responsibility is to it's investors.
Statements like "things are going to change when X happens", or "the only people who are going to take these jobs are trust fund babies" are self-serving. There will always be someone willing to do my job and yours for less money, and someone to profit from it. Capitalism and greed are completely legal, and we're completely accepting of it.