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Originally Posted by skidz  How many of you guys here think that this industry can actually be changed and pilots will get paid more? simple economics tells me you either have to have a serious shortage of pilots or a huge expansion of the air travel like the one back in the 50's. In either case I think American airline companies will rather employ someone from the third world to fly their airplanes for 12.50 an hour than pay an american pilot more. And yeah, if need be, they'll change the laws accordingly to allow that. I'm not saying pilots should give up trying to change the system as it is now, but I seriously doubt it could be changed. Anyway, that's just my humble opinion.  |
If McCain gets elected, we WILL have foreign pilots flying in the US for that sort of rate, at some degree.
Beyond that, if airline profitability goes up and the industry shrinks, we'll have leverage to strike for better pay eventually.