If you ever want a job at mainline, this should concern you. NAI is exploiting tax laws, labor laws, aviaton laws of various countries to get an unfair advantage. They are cherry picking different countries to base different parts of the operation at to cut expenses to a minimum. This is what happened to the maritime industry and now it is largely nonexistent. Granted, this won't have an effect on domestic flights, but there will likely be a loss in international routes and revenue, and therefore, jobs.

Just look at what the middle east carriers have done to routes to the middle east, with their government subsidies and access to really cheap fuel. How many us airlines are running routes to these places? United recently stopped flying to dubai because they couldn't compete up with emirates and etihad and still make a profit.


To the OP:

You're going to have a hard time getting this group to care. ALPA didn't seem to care when this type of thing was happening in their back yard, and lots of us have been screwed by it. We've been stuck in these jobs with poverty wages, $h!*** work rules, working 18-20 days a month, only to make $25-30k per year. For those of us who do care, we've already taken the time to write and call our congressmen, but that's all we can do. We're struggling to make ends meet, and there's no money to spare. Whatever extra money we can scrape together we have to spend on job fairs, apps, interview (hundreds to thousands $$) just to have the small chance that we can get out of this regional h*!!hole that the pilots at the majors (and alpa) created for us.