Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
You're wrong--because you're ignoring labor laws that exist in every country, which override the need for an FAA licensed pilot to operate an N-registered aircraft.
By your logic, a Chinese company could just up and bring over some CRJs with Chinese registration, bring over Chinese pilots who would work for 10K USD per year, and start underbidding every US regional out of all US regional flying. That doesn't happen, because to be a comm operator in the US, you have to be a US company. And the second you're a US company, you have to get work permission for any employee of yours who isn't a US citizen by proving that you cannot find a qualified US citizen to fill each and every job you're bringing over foreigners for.
Example: A German businessman can bring his German reg G5 from Germany with his German flight crew who have German licenses, because it's private carriage...so as far as the US government is concerned, that German pilot doesn't need a work visa, because he's not working for a US business, he's working for a German business who happens to be flying a G5 around in US airspace.
But the second the German businessman tries to hold out that German-reg G5 to US customers for hire, he would have to prove US ownership, because a foreign company can't legally become a registered commercial operator. So he would have to find a US partner or holding co. and setup a US-based company to operate his plane for hire on US soil. And any US employer has to obtain work visas for their employees and also prove they couldn't fill those jobs with US pilots first.
Basically what I'm saying is--in order to operate commercial flights in OZ, you have to be majority owned by a OZ company. And for an OZ company to hire anyone, they would have to get work visas and prove they couldn't find qualified local Aussie nationals first.
Basically--you would have to have an Aussie national with FAA licenses to fly an N-reg plane commercially in Australia. Aussie nationals would get priority over you, as a US citizen, because of the local labor laws.
Look, we all know there will be no such thing happening.
But you are not reading me right. If Quantas made a deal with Gojets for 17 jets to fly in-country routes those a/c would come equipped with crews as it would be a contract with the carrier NOT the individual pilot. Hense the idea of an OZ pilot getting priority gets nipped. the visas would be cheaper then re-registering the a/c.
anyway you look at it it's complicated and not going to happen.