Originally Posted by
asims33
How do you attract people to this industry when you tell them..
Set out to be a pilot spend 100k 2 years training 3 years working your butt off in little planes teaching others then get hired (if your lucky) and work for little to no money the first few years as an FO...OR go to college get a degree in architecture with your 5 years and make 200k a year out of the gate...
That's exactly the point. If the airlines cannot find enough qualified applicants that meet the 1,500 hour law, they will have to make changes in order to attract qualified applicants. Pay would be one of those changes. Pay goes up, more students may be willing to walk the path. The happy little cycle continues.
I really don't see any downside to this law passing, other than a bunch of flight school kids getting whiny about 'how hard it will be' and how they 'deserve a job right out of school'... but talking about the 'generation of entitlement' is for another discussion.