ALPA: Don't raise retirement age
05-21-2022 | 09:20 AM
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Decreased supply = higher price, increased supply = lower price. To claim reducing minimum requirements, therefore increasing pilot supply, would not negatively impact wages is…not accurate.
Besides, most decent professions have “regulatory barriers to entry” - ours just happens to coincide with experience, not education.
Besides, most decent professions have “regulatory barriers to entry” - ours just happens to coincide with experience, not education.
05-21-2022 | 09:39 AM
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This is Airline PILOT central not airline owners central. Make the barriers to entry high and wages will go up and then you’ll have more people chasing the career. Shortage gone.
05-21-2022 | 09:40 AM
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Actually doctors have to get a lot of clinical experience as well after med school, and they used to get paid $30K and work 100 hours/week while doing it (conditions have improved recently). The more lucrative specialties require even more years of clinical experience as an intern.
05-21-2022 | 09:45 AM
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In our case, experience IS the best education... nobody's come up with an academic curriculum which is a good substitute for experience. Despite what riddle, et al might claim
Actually doctors have to get a lot of clinical experience as well after med school, and they used to get paid $30K and work 100 hours/week while doing it (conditions have improved recently). The more lucrative specialties require even more years of clinical experience as an intern.
Actually doctors have to get a lot of clinical experience as well after med school, and they used to get paid $30K and work 100 hours/week while doing it (conditions have improved recently). The more lucrative specialties require even more years of clinical experience as an intern.
05-21-2022 | 09:46 AM
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The short term is similar to airlines slashing summer schedules they could not fly. It was the prudent BUISNESS decision. Similarly, slowing growth until the labor supply catches up is the prudent thing to do. ALPA is not responsible for reckless growth and therefore should oppose the proposed solutions.
05-21-2022 | 09:51 AM
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I would argue that's a better solution from a business perspective because you're not then stuck with lucrative CBA's until the next you can justify chapter 11. Paid training can be throttled as necessary based on supply and demand.
If the offer free training with a housing and/or stipend until employed at a regional they'd get plenty of applicants, more than they need I'm sure.
05-21-2022 | 10:18 AM
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Or airlines pay for initial training and/or time building.
I would argue that's a better solution from a business perspective because you're not then stuck with lucrative CBA's until the next you can justify chapter 11. Paid training can be throttled as necessary based on supply and demand.
If the offer free training with a housing and/or stipend until employed at a regional they'd get plenty of applicants, more than they need I'm sure.
I would argue that's a better solution from a business perspective because you're not then stuck with lucrative CBA's until the next you can justify chapter 11. Paid training can be throttled as necessary based on supply and demand.
If the offer free training with a housing and/or stipend until employed at a regional they'd get plenty of applicants, more than they need I'm sure.
We are airline pilots did we forget. The idea is to pull as much compensation out of these places as possible. Let the managers run the companies because their other goal is pulling out as much cash as possible for themselves.
The spirit CEO gets $12M in bonus for closing the frontier merger so tells JetBlue they aren’t interested and also they don’t expect any increase in pilot cost for five years.
05-21-2022 | 10:19 AM
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