Originally Posted by
Phuz
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.
Sorry to be so upfront but you don't seem to understand basic economics, if you made the minimum requirement 10,000 hours to be hired by a regional airline, you would have a total of what, maybe 1000 applicants on the street right now willing to take that job versus the 20,000 applicants you would have if it was for commercial minimums. but out of those 1000 people that do have 10k hours, of course they are not willing to work for 20 grand a year, they have spent years and years getting that time and will only take that job if it pays lets say at least 60 grand. the airlines would be forced to raise pay and in response to that be forced to increase their prices when they bid for contracts. majors would then be forced to raise prices to the passengers, it may only be 10 cents per ticket but it would be raised.