Originally Posted by freightguy

Only if we let them Skyhigh...only if we let them.

That is why the 1500 hr rule is so important to the US airline pilot industry. With 1500 hrs, you can't waltz even into a regional airline turboprop with 250 hours. If 1500hr rule goes through, you need to pay your dues as a flight instructor, freight pilot or military before you see an airline cockpit. Pilots will not accept $20,000 per year wages at regionals for long if that happens. Regionals will lose the cost savings at the flight deck level soon. More flying will go to majors as a result. The overall supply will be curbed significantly....after all the requirement is going up 6 times the current levels. Then...supply and demand. Flight deck salaries will significantly climb.

However, even our own union is not supporting the 1500 hr rule. Most of the memebrship wants the 1500 written in stone...but leadership does not. So we will have to wait and see how this pans out. We could regain the past glory...we have the tools at our disposal. But we have to play our cards right. We are our own biggest enemy in this fight...it should not be like that.