What would the UAW do?
#11
Well maybe the FARs should have required you to hold an ATP. Part 121 should require an ATP for every seat. I'm not quite sure how your examples are germane except to show that school training does not necessarily qualify one for the profession.
Don't get wrapped up in the ALPA name. Should our profession have some say in who and how someone can enter? I just used ALPA because it is easier to type than naming every union. And as for "artificially" shrinking the market, it's not artificial. It's basic supply and demand. Tightening the requirements for operating a Part 121 aircraft is not artificial. Personally I think it is long over due. We are seeing the results of lax training and hiring standards of the small carriers in the accident numbers.
I'm only talking 121 ops. 135 and 91 ops would have their own rules. An ATP is not needed to sit in the right seat of a Beech Jet. An ATP should be required to sit in the right seat of an airliner.
This is just an abstract idea in response to your rejection out of hand to the previous poster. The FAA is failing in it's safety mandate. Maybe a little help from the unions would be beneficial.
Don't get wrapped up in the ALPA name. Should our profession have some say in who and how someone can enter? I just used ALPA because it is easier to type than naming every union. And as for "artificially" shrinking the market, it's not artificial. It's basic supply and demand. Tightening the requirements for operating a Part 121 aircraft is not artificial. Personally I think it is long over due. We are seeing the results of lax training and hiring standards of the small carriers in the accident numbers.
I'm only talking 121 ops. 135 and 91 ops would have their own rules. An ATP is not needed to sit in the right seat of a Beech Jet. An ATP should be required to sit in the right seat of an airliner.
This is just an abstract idea in response to your rejection out of hand to the previous poster. The FAA is failing in it's safety mandate. Maybe a little help from the unions would be beneficial.
#12
Setting up barriers to entry is a start, but that's not the only reason why unions like UAW are so powerful. The biggest reason why UAW workers make double what an regional pilot makes just to place, not even screw, a bolt in a hole is the RLA. When there's little to no threat of a workforce walking off the job, why even negotiate? ALPA needs to put its resources towards that more than any other program it works on.
Also, I don't believe that ALPA has any sort of long term plan. Do they have any idea what an airline pilot should make an hour to fly a specific type? Have they set goals to meet? I believe its just every MEC for themselves.
I think that for a long term solution, it should be ALPA's goal for every one of its airlines contracts to meet a certain standard. Then it's up to the next pilot group negotiating to set the new standard. The best part about this is that if every pilot group is making about the same, mgmt absolutely cannot complain that they can't be competitive at a certain rate. Period.
yea, nay?
Also, I don't believe that ALPA has any sort of long term plan. Do they have any idea what an airline pilot should make an hour to fly a specific type? Have they set goals to meet? I believe its just every MEC for themselves.
I think that for a long term solution, it should be ALPA's goal for every one of its airlines contracts to meet a certain standard. Then it's up to the next pilot group negotiating to set the new standard. The best part about this is that if every pilot group is making about the same, mgmt absolutely cannot complain that they can't be competitive at a certain rate. Period.
yea, nay?
#13
Originally Posted by satchip
Well maybe the FARs should have required you to hold an ATP.
Part 121 should require an ATP for every seat.
My personal belief would be not to have an ATP a requirement for hire, but to fly the line (meaning one could get it on the company's dime, doing a dual ATP/type ride).
Should our profession have some say in who and how someone can enter?
We are seeing the results of lax training and hiring standards of the small carriers in the accident numbers.
I'm only talking 121 ops.
#14
Requiring an ATP to sit in a part 121 air carrier seat will single handedly solve the puppy mills pumping out 250 hour wonders and Multi Pilot Licenses.
And lower the available applicants for part 121 jobs, possibly raising the entry level income (but I doubt any raises beyond that).
However, imagine how competitive those jobs that bridge the gap between a wet 250 hour commercial license and a wet 1500 hour ATP will be. I predict that there will be MORE pay to play and abuses of people who just want to fly.
And lower the available applicants for part 121 jobs, possibly raising the entry level income (but I doubt any raises beyond that).
However, imagine how competitive those jobs that bridge the gap between a wet 250 hour commercial license and a wet 1500 hour ATP will be. I predict that there will be MORE pay to play and abuses of people who just want to fly.
#15
However, I somewhat disagree with your pay to play theory. No one can afford to pay for 1500 hrs. Getting to 1500 hrs usually takes a lot of time as a CFI etc. This would reduce the amount of guys trying to do it quick and easy.
#16
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In leu of the Midwest situation, what would the UAW do if GM, Ford, or who ever fired all the workers. Then the next day brought in a whole new group to do the same work for less money in different factories? This isn't a political jab, but where's the govt. now for these workers? The employees that have given 10-20-30 years to this company, and now some kid will fly the route at a fraction of the price. Where is ALPA? Is there nothing that can be done for the employees of Midwest? Where is the press on CNN about this? Blows my mind.
This whole situation should disturb all of us in the airline industry to the extreme. How fast can you be undercut to fly the public around for $20 tickets?
What would the UAW do? What would the local machinists 575 do?
This whole situation should disturb all of us in the airline industry to the extreme. How fast can you be undercut to fly the public around for $20 tickets?
What would the UAW do? What would the local machinists 575 do?
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