[Will congress repeal the 1500 hour rule?]
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Richard Anderson has been recorded several times saying he targets 1% growth due to demand, has never expressed desire to grow market share through capacity growth and risking margins.
His plan to capture market share was offer a better product, while maintaining higher operational and quality control by bringing the flying back in house.
Southwest announced 8% capacity growth a year or so ago and Wall Street dumped the stock, the new norm is capacity discipline in favor of margins.
No aviation company in America that is recruiting pilots and offers 60k a year is having jobs go unfilled and being forced to downsize. That is what is takes to raise a family and have a spouse to be able to help with children. What you are talking about is companies recruiting young adults to pay 20k a year to who have no responsibility and live with their parents.
#182
Alright guys, I have an idea for this: we have the naval academy and USAF academy that feeds a good majority of military aviators. As brought up before, what about a US aviation academy? Encorporate stringent training standards similar to Mil pilot training. That way when you pop a guy out at the end at 250 hours, there is a higher quality of training mitigating the lack of the other 1250 hours and that person finishes with a R-ATP to be fed to the regionals.
It doesn't even have to be fully tax payer funded, airlines could invest in them. You could create multiple campuses since it would be to alleviate the pilot shortage and boost safety. Other countries have aviation cadet programs.
Not advocating eliminating the 1500 rule but if it were to happen, this might be a good way to ensure a quality product AND alleviate the pilot shortage?
It doesn't even have to be fully tax payer funded, airlines could invest in them. You could create multiple campuses since it would be to alleviate the pilot shortage and boost safety. Other countries have aviation cadet programs.
Not advocating eliminating the 1500 rule but if it were to happen, this might be a good way to ensure a quality product AND alleviate the pilot shortage?
#183
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It's more than just increasing pay. Realistically in order to fix the problem the regionals need to be done away with and all the flying goes back to mainline. Delta already has a CRJ payscale. You would get the hours for the ATP and then start at AA, DL, UA, SWA, UPS, FedEx for the best candidates and the others would start at JB, NK, F9 etc. Under that system I don't think there would be a shortage of people wanting to enter the career.
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Plus, the obligation is what...12 years *after* winging now? The military's problem is not the airlines. It's more along the lines of dudes being stuffed into a Pred GCS or having to take virtual learning on every topic under the sun *except* warfighting.
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'Miracle on Hudson' pilots join Flight 3407 families in Senate safety battle - The Buffalo News
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