[QUOTE=Albief15;2305167]It is not as dumb as you think...



While it is a tragic story, the fact is one poor regional pilot with a bad training record probably did more to enhance our profession than years of dedicated work and effort by many ALPA volunteers. The Colgan crash put pilot experience and competency into the discussion in the media and in Congress, and also flight time and duty time issues. Subsequent legislation meant to enhance safety like the Part 117 regulations and the 2013 ATP changes not only helped enhance safety, but also gave pilot groups more leverage than they have had in years by shrinking the pool of available labor. What Goldfein hopes to do--as do the RAA and a host of others--is lower the requirements to increase that pool size. In the process, he will take pressure off his manning crisis by not only increasing the of non-military pilots available for airlines, but by potentially reducing our future pay as well. He doesn't just want to keep his pilots--he wants to make the airlines an overall less attractive option.

Using history as a guide a USAF pilot applicant will be competitive against any other applicant for any desirable airline position. So unless the Pay/QOL becomes so degraded at the legacies that the USAF pilot wants to stay put this would not help Goldfein's attrition problem.
You would hope he would take the energy he's putting toward this push and use it to try to improve morale, compensation, and QOL in the AF. Making the AF a more attractive place to be instead of trying to make the airline world look less attractive seems like it would benefit the AF in more ways than one.