Originally Posted by
satchip
This seems like one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't situations. I have supported and argued for an ATP minimum to occupy a part 121 seat from the get go. What you describe Bar, is a real possibility. Markets, like money, flow to where it's wanted. If the supply of domestic cheap pilot labor dried up with this law, what you say Bar could happen. What is a greater threat to our jobs, cheap entry level bottom feeder regions or MPL cruise pilots flying across the ocean thus negating the need for augmenting and reducing the crews required?
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Satch;
All true - but again- isn't that where the union is supposed to step in and say "NO."
We are not the company executives here. I refuse to belong to an organization that is willing to sell my job just because it is a reasonable academic arguement.