Originally Posted by
Bond
News flash fellows, after the congressional hearings coming up in the next couple of weeks, I guarantee you that certification, qualification, and overall hiring practices will be brought forward to the table. When it's all set and done, I hope and anticipate nothing less than ATP as the mins. Let's see what happens.
There's no way in hell that can happen. The system here continues to become more and more like the EU system of integrated and MCL programs. There will be less and less GA to provide pilots with the opportunity to build enough time to get ATP mins and the will be fewer and fewer pilots willing to go through what it takes to get those hours.
Requiring ATP mins won't happen...if it does, it won't last more than five years.
The real problem with pilot pay continues to be the RLA. I fail to understand why i haven't seen seen more discussions about this place in time being the perfect opportunity to have a discussion about this. I've also not seen nothing (granted, I don't read these boards NEARLY as much as I used to) about FedEx labor's attempt to get themselves removed from the RLA. I don't know the specifics of it, but I saw on CSPAN one congressman rising in opposition to an amendment to the FAA funding bill that would remove FedEx employees (not sure which group) from the constraints of the RLA.
THIS is the real issue that needs to be dealt with, the "ATP mins" argument is gonna be dead before it even sees the light of day.