Originally Posted by
C130driver
And that had hardly anything to do with the benevolence of these cultures to give unemployed American pilots jobs vice supply and demand.
I never questioned motives. Supply and demand drives the hiring market as it always has. I'm simply disputing Gundriver64's opinion using facts.
If an English pilot wanted to come here to fly passengers, he'd have to start as a regional FO making $30,000. Or.. he could go to Dubai or China and make six figures right away. Even some of the desperate regionals here won't sponser work visas for foreigners to fly for them. We don't exactly win the prize as far as hiring foreign pilots.
But again, hiring is not the subject of the OP's post so...