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Old 11-11-2016 | 01:27 PM
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darkman62
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I would say not at this time, nothing has really happened yet. If the new president in any way starts screwing with the economy, ripping up trade deals, etc., then we could see some slowdown in hiring at all carriers. Remember just how sensitive our industry is to business travel and bumps in the economy. If the "anti-regulation" president decides to roll back on: age 65, FAR 117, ATP rule, we could definitely also see a slowdown in hiring. A rollback of the ATP rule would certainly also rollback all of the new regional bonuses and compensation gains we have recently seen-supply and demand.

You can bet that the airlines will be knocking on doors to get regulation relief now that they have a more "business friendly" administration.

The new president is also not union friendly. Any small chance of a strike before is certainly impossible now. Even if approved, he'd certainly order pilots back to work as other presidents have. But I'm sure all in this industry who voted for him thought about all this before they cast their ballot. We'll just have to see what happens in a year or so.



Exacty but us genius pilots always vote for Presidents that go against our best interests.
We forget that we belong to a union work force and like to vote the anti union white guy in office.
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