Regardless of whether or not someone believes the 1500 hour rule is correlated to safety or not. One thing I believe is the 1500 hour rule has improved is pilot pay, especially at the regionals. People want to come onboard with the ink still wet on their commercial cert and make $50+ an hour to fly a jet. Do away with that and you could bet on it regionals are going to try and start racing to the basement on pay rates. Gotta pay to attract pilots right now, flood the market with inexperienced pilots and we’ll be on the road back to $19/hr first year.