Originally Posted by Scoop

DAL 88,

This article confuses me. It is written by ALPA who support a 500 hr waiver and yet it says the following:


"The US Congress/President. As long as commercial aviation is seemingly safe (not too many accidents) and their constituents are getting cheap fairs, they are content. Even if they knew that current conditions in the industry would lead to a less stable airline industry or at worse, more accidents, they would not act to change it because they are afraid any increase in ticket fairs would be blamed on them. Besides, they know that if safety becomes a headline, they will be the first to grandstand on the subject and take credit for helping to solve the problem. They are useless in this debate."


Congress is actually trying to correct this with a 1500 hour minimum and ALPA is pushing for a 500 waiver. ALPA is condemning congress when Congress is apparently being more pro-active about the experience issue than ALPA.

Is it really Congress worried about high fares, or the Regional Airline Association (supported by ALPA) that are actually worried about raising Pilot compensation at the regionals?
Our union dues at work boys.

Scoop