Guys please take less than a minute to complete the call to action in favor of the 1500hr rule in your latest ALPA blast mail. There is growing support for lowering this requirement because of the airlines crying shortage. Safety aside, barriers to entry are incredibly helpful in keeping wages up. We all know that when a kid with money or can qualify for a loan they are more than happy to go to work for poverty wages with 500hrs. It takes a little more time and money to get that 1500hrs during which time life starts to happen for people and they start to realize that maybe the ROI isn't worth it without higher wages. People used to become pilots because it was a good career. Those guys are about to retire. The events of 9/11 and 2008 crushed earning potential and 1500 kept many of the more practical applicants in other careers. Only now with wages up will word get out that this may actually be a career worth pursuing again. The problem is the airlines are still feeling the affects of the last 15yrs of damage they did so they want to go right back to lowering the barriers to entry.

This affects our ability to negotiate the contract we deserve. It takes less than a minute to do the call to action. DO IT!