Originally Posted by
Mesabah
There may be a pilot shortage as a result, however, how is the pay going to go up if the union keeps voting contracts that sells out the junior pilots. That's been the number one problem in this industry. Managers mismanage and only have x amount of dollars to pay out, the union decides how that x amount is divided up. Will mainline guys give up some pay to increase 1st year regional pay to attract higher qualified candidates?
For one thing it will create a level playing field for regionals looking at candidates. Places that fed off of and took advantage of the low timers because no one else was hiring at 300TT will have to change their tune. When hiring does pick up i think all regionals will be at the same hour requirement and the only other way to get applicants will be to pay and treat them better. It is sad that people had to die to get a common sense solution proposed. We all knew that hiring low time pilots was a bad idea.