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⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
Surprisingly though he said it was the airline reps who were pushing this, not the FAA... He thinks the airlines want to force their pilots to live in their domiciles but want to put the blame on the FAA and not on themselves... I hope his info is incorrect but I fear a European model of forcing all pilots to live where they work is slowly heading our way...
Which wouldn't be insanely terrible IF the airlines were required to pay cost-of-living adjustments for pricey areas. What's interesting is that Colgan pays its own managers a high-cost-of-living adjustment for the EWR base, but not its flight crews.