Originally Posted by canucker

It is a disaster up here. Air Canada is also underpaid. 777 Captains make less then NB year 3-4 CAs in the USA. It's disgusting. Union busting companies, none or very little competition for pilots and government over-reach are a bit part of the problem. Air Canada used to be a very well respected place to work, and was paid well (20 years ago). Since then it's been a constant degradation on the WAWCON largely due to an inept union. I can say with quite a lot of certainty that anyone wanting to move to the USA to fly would stand in lockstep with any American born pilot at a strike or protest picket. And there's way less pilots here in Canada (maybe 15k ATPs among all the airlines) and most wouldnt' move. At most there would be a slow trickle of maybe a few dozen a year willing to uproot their life and move to the USA. Certainly not enough to make any sort of impact on WAWCON in the USA.