To answer your question politics, economics and time.

Politics:
Politically it would be hard to change the laws since we'd have to look at some immigration laws as well as some laws about crews, airplanes, etc. The same laws are part of an international convention that was adopted to protect the pilot's of other nations. So there are a lot of political pieces domestically and abroad attached to changing who can crew what planes with what flags. Of course nations get around this (China, some African countries) but moving these laws isn't easy.

Similar international convention and national laws prevent flag-of-convenience operations like we see with big ships.

Economics:
The upfront cost of changing these laws is large, but various groups are currently investing in doing so. As long as there are regional airline pilots to draw from it may be cheaper to recruit young, American pilots, even those wth only six months or so on the line at a regional.

Time:
By the time we modify laws to draw pilots from overseas, we will have had to fight labor leaders and ammend some international conventions. By that time economic winds will have changed.

Just my take. I could be out to lunch. Seems it's easier to pay pilots.

 

This has been answered over and again. Plan on guarantee. No one can forecast what the economy. Freight is supposed to be good for a few more years, but geopolitical forces can change this rapidly. Inflation thru the roof, interest rates shooting up. The feds are try to stomp on the brakes. So who knows how that is really going to shake out in the end. Plan on guarantee, anything more is gravy.

 

Do y'all get MyID travel on other carriers for yourselves and family.

 

Yes, after 6 months.

 

Could someone also please let me know best place to find study material for interview prep for Atlas?

Cheers

 

SigWX and Jeppesen chart legends.

 

Thanks for the info what about the HR questions ??

 

Can someone please help me re MyID travel

- any retiree benifits after X amount of service with Atlas

- is the list getting longer? Looks like there hardly any airlines on there compared to working for other carriers (my current one has over 100 ZED agreements)

Thanks a lot

 

You are trading zed benefits for the ability to collect miles and points. These days, air fare isn’t too bad and once you get status you will not think twice about non-reving for vacation. You still will have jumpseat privileges with all of the major carriers. This came in handy when I made a last minute decision to catch a earlier flight home and I had 10 minutes to make that decision.

To answer your question, I don’t have the exact list. It’s not very long…

 

Ok thanks for the info and fair enough. We have relatives all over the world and non-rev for us has been a huge money saver, and even with kids we have been doing so for years.

Here is the link from your union website re ZED agreements (list is bottom right)

https://wp.iap2750.org/committees/dependent-travel/

Do you pax that much in Atlas to make it worth collecting a lot of miles and gaining status? Didn't think the Gateway travel program would get you enough miles to make it worth.

Thank you