Originally Posted by
BATOL
Between us, congress, and the FAA, am I the only one that realizes there are an infinite number of values between 250 and 1500? I don't understand why it's either one or the other. Drop it to 1000 or 1200 or 800. Then the industry gets less onerous hiring requirements and the pilots and survivors families still get higher minimum experience airline pilots. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me:
It's not the number as much as the ATP and type rating requirement... Which becomes a very big can of worms if opened.