Originally Posted by
snippercr
I humbly propose this question: While just about everyone on this board champions this law because it should increase pilot pay (and to a certain extent, safety), many people have said they fear it will give rise to multi-crew licenses. Which do you think would be worse: 500 hour wonders sitting right seat of a 50 seater, or the implementation of multi-crew licenses?
In return I humbly suggest that all crewmembers on the flight deck of a 121 carrier hold an ATP licensce no exceptions. If it means there are not enough pilots to staff the aircraft perhaps management will have to make the job more attractive, or maybe fly more 100 seat aircraft at mainline instead of 50 to 70 seat aircraft at regionals. I have flown with enough 500 to 1000 hour pilots in the right seat that I know the majority of the time my work load was increased often at the most inopportune time. If requiring 1500 hours for 121 operations creates an actual pilot shortage then I am all for it. Let management figure out how to move the planes without pilots, perhaps seats would become enough of a commodity that higher (more realistic) prices could be charged.