The Perfect Storm
03-24-2010, 06:42 AM
#21
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100% agree.................
I'm 100% sure that domestic scope will hold where it's at and probable become more restrictive as mainline pilots negotiate their contracts over the next 5-10 years.
What I'm worried about is "Open Skies" and "Anti-Trust Immunity.”
UAL MEC News Release
I'm 100% sure that domestic scope will hold where it's at and probable become more restrictive as mainline pilots negotiate their contracts over the next 5-10 years.
What I'm worried about is "Open Skies" and "Anti-Trust Immunity.”
UAL MEC News Release
While we sit and squabble about seat counts and pay rates per seat, far bigger issues are afoot, and the issues you mention make the current ones pale in comparison.
03-24-2010, 07:12 AM
#23
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The forces at hand are already circling for the "multi pilot crew license" and a Euro style "cadet" program.
The 800 hour rule is a setup for this very thing. A problem is being manufactured, and a solution will "mysteriously appear" in the form of cabotage and the MCPL.
Nu
The 800 hour rule is a setup for this very thing. A problem is being manufactured, and a solution will "mysteriously appear" in the form of cabotage and the MCPL.
Nu
03-24-2010, 08:01 AM
#24
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The danger of cabotage is not that it brings in foreign workers to take your job, rather it allows your current company to move resources out of the US where more favorable company rules exist. I.E. perhaps to a country where unions are illegal.
03-24-2010, 08:49 AM
#25
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Although it would be nice to be able to take advantage of European labor laws and wildcat strike.
03-24-2010, 09:53 AM
#27
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Nothing is permanent and our industry is no different. It is evolving quickly just like all other businesses in the United States.
03-24-2010, 10:15 AM
#28
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I agree. Pilots are a dime a dozen and I don’t think that will change any time soon, possible not even within the next ten years. The industry is cyclical and there fore labor (pilot) demand is also cyclical. Please do not think there will be a pilot shortage. The pilot shortage marketing strategy for flight schools is a very old one. Then, airlines capitalize on the idea also by lowering wages because pilots are willing to work for less to position them selves for when wages go back up when the shortage actually comes. I hope I am wrong but I doubt there will ever be a shortage.
03-24-2010, 12:37 PM
#29
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Just a question, where is the threat in that? Most pilots in other countries are far better compensated than we are, are you talking pilots or other workers? It is kind of hard to ship a rampers job overseas. Although it wouldn't bother me if they tried to ship some management jobs overseas.
03-25-2010, 03:36 AM
#30
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[quote=mwa1;783107]well kick my butt and someone call Kit Darby - he was right after all
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