ALPA: Don't raise retirement age
05-29-2022 | 06:26 AM
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05-29-2022 | 10:39 AM
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that is after managements started using employee concessions to increase profitability. As they began stripping away pay and work rules, they were forced to hire continually decreasing total time applicants. When the job was worth having, it was always a much higher time and certificate than just a commercial with 250 TT, and more often than not was well above ATP mins.
05-29-2022 | 10:41 AM
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If all regional flying was brought in-house. Assuming they could still staff, would Mesa through Skywest give up? What would they become if not fee for departure? Just curious about unintended consequences from such a hypothetical. Could they create wage pressure by going big flying wide body at narrow body rates.
05-29-2022 | 11:33 AM
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Don’t raise the retirement age! Lower the hour requirement. I’ve had not issues with newbie pilots Speaking from experience as a TRI/TRE overseas on and off for 24 years. Pilots from foreign lands are issued frozen ATPL with some as low as 250 hours. The freeze is removed once 1,500 hours is reached and passing their LPC’s. Bottom line right seaters are captains in training. Their chance to learn and improve their craft is the guy/gal in the right seat. Can’t blame non instructing captains who are hired to be part of crew equipped with a ready to go out of the box.
05-29-2022 | 02:40 PM
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Don’t raise the retirement age! Lower the hour requirement. I’ve had not issues with newbie pilots Speaking from experience as a TRI/TRE overseas on and off for 24 years. Pilots from foreign lands are issued frozen ATPL with some as low as 250 hours. The freeze is removed once 1,500 hours is reached and passing their LPC’s. Bottom line right seaters are captains in training. Their chance to learn and improve their craft is the guy/gal in the right seat. Can’t blame non instructing captains who are hired to be part of crew equipped with a ready to go out of the box.
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05-29-2022 | 09:46 PM
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that is after managements started using employee concessions to increase profitability. As they began stripping away pay and work rules, they were forced to hire continually decreasing total time applicants. When the job was worth having, it was always a much higher time and certificate than just a commercial with 250 TT, and more often than not was well above ATP mins.
It was not the 4500 hours you toted and there weren't concession prior to 9-11. It dipped to 250, but never as high as you stated. Not even close. For a person who wasn't in the regionals during the 90s, you seem to speak as if it were gospel. You are flat out wrong.
05-30-2022 | 11:07 AM
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First off, wages will not go down, and with inflation, they have to increase just to keep the same buying power. Why would the unions let wages decrease? Your statement makes zero sense.
That accident had nothing to do with the total time of the pilots involved. This has been explained, please try and keep up.
That accident had nothing to do with the total time of the pilots involved. This has been explained, please try and keep up.
05-30-2022 | 11:34 AM
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First off, wages will not go down, and with inflation, they have to increase just to keep the same buying power. Why would the unions let wages decrease? Your statement makes zero sense.
That accident had nothing to do with the total time of the pilots involved. This has been explained, please try and keep up.
That accident had nothing to do with the total time of the pilots involved. This has been explained, please try and keep up.
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