My guess is that in ten years the FAA will authorize the Multi-Crew License.

The cost of flight training has doubled over the last ten years. It is due to double or tipple yet again over the next ten. In the near future it will become quite difficult for civilian pilots to pay for their own training. As a result the airlines and the FAA will push for the creation of the Multi-Crew License.

Rather than pay for higher time pilots the airlines will hire cadet pilots and train them from zero under a contract to exclusively be a pilot for their company on their equipment. No VFR or 172 stuff just part 121 airline training from zero to graduation day.

Their total flight time will be low however their training will be exclusively focused on their job. The results will be that people with no cash can become airline pilots and the airlines will get an unlimited supply of indentured servants who are under contract to work for them at slave wages.

It is even possible that the cadets could come from third world countries. Be trained overseas and commute to the US to fly US regional aircraft over US routes for a period of time then return to their country for their days off. Their wages could be half of what regional pilots get paid today.

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