Originally Posted by
rickair7777
If foreign countries could generate pilots as easily as they can train able-bodied seamen, we'd be in trouble ourselves, at least on international
.........but they can. The reason our buttoxes are not being replaced by the buttoxes of Indonesian twenty somethings are cabotage laws. These are the same things that kept me from getting a 737 gig in Thailand, Vietnam when I had thrice the experience of the people I was training for that specific job.
Do you remember the #denyNAI movement. It wasn't poor pilotage that caused them to fail. We are very lucky that Covid 19 caused NAI to crash and burn and thus the flag of convenience operating model did not threaten us.