White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday suggested that the Trump administration looks favorably on the foreign air carrier permit that the Obama administration granted to Norwegian Air's Ireland-based subsidiary in December.
"There is a huge economic benefit that lies in that deal right now," Spicer said, referring to Norwegian's plan to purchase more than 100 Boeing aircraft and noting that Norwegian has committed to hiring U.S. workers."

Now that the reality is out, whats the latest from those who voted against self interest?

No Obama this. No Hiliary that. We have who we have. His administration has came out with his position on how great this will be to Make America Great Again.

This is intended to be an actual discussion on what DID happen. Not but if......

Self interest? I voted for an entire nation's self interest. Now it looks like ALPA needs to go in and educate him on what NIA really means to us.

You haven't figured out that the "interest" of airline pilots doesn't mean squat to politicians? They're all about big corporate campaign donations. Does it surprise you that the FIRST order of business of the Trump administration was to register as a candidate for the 2020 election? That qualifies him to start taking campaign donations.

Besides, everyone in America "knows" we all make $300K a year and work 2 weeks a month. What are we complaining about?

It's gonna be a uphill battle with this. The average schmuck is gonna hear "oh they buy American and 50% us crews? I love the sound of the those numbers, god bless trump for bringing work back to America and supporting our pilots, those damn union boys are just getting their panties in a wad, im smart and know what's best for these guys". No one is gonna any further to its building 500 jobs and losing thousands potentially

In basically any other industry, anyone can own a company that operates inside the United States. Why are airlines different?

I'm not saying we should change it, but what makes us different.

You're one of the many Trump voters who didn't know what they were voting for, and now you're getting a taste of your own medicine. No sympathy here.


Trump is big on trade. The number one contributing industry for reducing the trade deficit is Aerospace & Defense. The largest company inside that industry is Boeing. A few high paying pilot jobs at US owned carriers (that aren't going away, they're just being transferred to NAI at lower wages) are peanuts compared to the high paying engineering, manufacturing, and business jobs that Boeing generates when they sell those airplanes to NAI.

Yeah I figured that out a long time ago, that's why I've been paying union dues for 25 years. NIA was enacted by the party that was supposed to have my carreer's best interests in mind and I was supposed to vote for them agian? Nah, I'm happy with the one we got.

I don't need any sympathy, I love everything I've heard until the NIA thing. You can't have it all with one candidate but it's better than nothing from the other.

I think you're the one that needs the sympathy. Tell us again how this got approved and who was in charge when it happened?