Originally Posted by
KiloAlpha
Agreed. But I still don't support a gov't mandated minimum wage.
Just thinkin' out loud here, but how about this. If the FAA mandated that all airline crew members must have an ATP and the minimum requirement for an ATP was 3000 hours, then in theory supply would decrease and airlines would have to raise wages to attract people. I dunno..
You could make the limit 10k hours if you wanted to. You would still have regional airlines undercutting eachother to bid for contracts.
Pilots will always be willing to fly for less money each time contracts come around if it means that they WILL retain their job long-term. We suffer through the tough years in hopes of attaining that higher income later.
But as another poster put it, "averages be damned, it only takes one."
Something needs to be done.