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US, EU, Others Agree On Airline Liberalization Framework




By Ann Keeton, Of DOWJONES NEWSWIRES
Representatives of the European Commission, the United States and six other countries on Monday signed a pact to set the framework for less restrictive regulations on the international airline industry that could pave the way for global consolidation.
The framework, which covers 60% of the global airline market, came out of the Agenda For Freedom Summit in Montebello, Quebec, Canada, sponsored by the International Air Transport Association.
Giovanni Bisignani, head of the airline trade group, said the countries signed a statement of policy principles to bring more liberal business practices to the international airline industry. Currently, international air service is regulated through a complex web of bilateral "open skies" treaties. Other industries aren't subject to such restrictions, Bisignani said. He said the 65- year-old regulatory system has hampered the airline industry to the point that it can't enjoy sustained profitability.
The new statement indicates governments' willingness to give airlines the freedom to pursue foreign ownership, as well as lift restrictions on flights, fares and routes.
Countries also signing the new agreement include Chile, Malaysia, Singapore, Panama and the United Arab Emirates.
Other countries, including India and Canada, are reviewing the proposal, Bisignani said.
A study of 12 countries by IATA found that more liberal business rules for airlines would add about 1% to each country's GDP, increasing air traffic by about one-third. For consumers, air fares would drop an average of 16% around the globe as airlines got more efficient.
"Carriers for many years have been fighting with one hand tied behind their backs," Bisignini said.
After World War II, countries agreed on multilateral safety rules, but didn't find common ground for commercial regulations. Under the new regulatory framework, the open-skies agreements would remain in place, but countries would refrain from enforcing regulations that hamper airlines' businesses.
-By Ann Keeton, Dow Jones Newswires; 312-750-4120;[email protected]
 
The only positive thing for us pilots is the RLA would have to be abolished if we were to go to global consolidation......
 
Cabotage here we come!
 
The only positive thing for us pilots is the RLA would have to be abolished if we were to go to global consolidation......

How is that a positive if it brings cabotage?

-Just Damn
 
Why does everyone fear cabotage when American pilots are the lowest paid? Bring on cabotage and pay me the same as a European carrier any day of the week. Oh, and make it in Euros.
 
I thought by not voting in McCain we were not going to get cabotage.

I guess the party lines aren't quite as distinct as the hardcore ones on each side would have you believe....
 
It's a snapshot...

Why does everyone fear cabotage when American pilots are the lowest paid? Bring on cabotage and pay me the same as a European carrier any day of the week. Oh, and make it in Euros.

You think were the lowest paid, but that is because the world isn't set up to produce pilots like the US and West is, so when countries want to ramp up airlines, they go with expats to bulk out their corps.

Don't think for a minute that in a quick decade that you couldn't find Indians to fly coast to coast for a few hundred dollars a month if air India or star, etc is allowed to fly from LA to NY. That would desimate what is left of our domestic market and put downward pressure on everyones wages.

If you think that cabotage will import higher wages and better working conditions to the US, you are insane!
 
You think were the lowest paid, but that is because the world isn't set up to produce pilots like the US and West is, so when countries want to ramp up airlines, they go with expats to bulk out their corps.

Don't think for a minute that in a quick decade that you couldn't find Indians to fly coast to coast for a few hundred dollars a month if air India or star, etc is allowed to fly from LA to NY. That would desimate what is left of our domestic market and put downward pressure on everyones wages.

If you think that cabotage will import higher wages and better working conditions to the US, you are insane!


Agreed....
 
You think were the lowest paid, but that is because the world isn't set up to produce pilots like the US and West is, so when countries want to ramp up airlines, they go with expats to bulk out their corps.

Don't think for a minute that in a quick decade that you couldn't find Indians to fly coast to coast for a few hundred dollars a month if air India or star, etc is allowed to fly from LA to NY. That would desimate what is left of our domestic market and put downward pressure on everyones wages.

If you think that cabotage will import higher wages and better working conditions to the US, you are insane!


agreed.....
 
Go find me a well paid AMERICAN merchant marine. Go ahead...I'll wait.

We haven't seen one for decades. EVERY ship coming into the US has foreign sailors on bored. Much cheaper

This could easily happen to us
 
Hi!

Air India has US pilots flying for them, at very high pay, because India does not have enough pilots. Same for Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa.

cliff
NBO
 
Go find me a well paid AMERICAN merchant marine. Go ahead...I'll wait.

We haven't seen one for decades. EVERY ship coming into the US has foreign sailors on bored. Much cheaper

This could easily happen to us

Yup! Flew with a Captain who was a Merchant Mariner and he was telling me all about it. Scary stuff. Those 3rd world workers will work for nothing. Now granted, there is barely any skill to the work that they do (deckhands), however if technology progresses enough, we'll just man the plane with any idiot and let the computer do the rest, ohhhh... wait... crap!
 
Hi!

Air India has US pilots flying for them, at very high pay, because India does not have enough pilots. Same for Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa.

cliff
NBO

For now. If the demand is there, those countries will eventually develop pilot training schools to meet the demand. There is no reason to believe this would lead to higher wages for us in the long run...
 
Hi!

Air India has US pilots flying for them, at very high pay, because India does not have enough pilots. Same for Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa.

cliff
NBO


Indian law requires all pilots in India to be nationals... it goes into effect in a couple years... IIRC...
 
We Need a U.S. National Air Transportation Policy


Nov 17, 2009

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Robert L. Crandall and Kevin P. Mitchell

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The following "Departures" op-ed appears in the Nov. 17 Aviation Daily
In the 31 years that have elapsed since the U.S. airline industry was deregulated, the industry has lurched from crisis to crisis, and its performance has declined by virtually every measure. Year after year the industry's financial situation grows more desperate, it provides fewer good jobs, its employee relations worsen, its customer service deteriorates and its international competitiveness declines.
While airlines in other countries have had substantial and continuing difficulties, it is clear that America's carriers have declined more precipitously.
Fortunately, the unhappy state of the industry is now attracting some political attention, and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has announced formation of "The Federal Advisory Committee on the Future of Aviation." Hopefully, the new group will come up with a keener analysis and more successful proposals than 1993's "Commission to Ensure a Strong and Competitive Airline Industry."
In the run up to the creation of the new committee, Secretary LaHood has invited stakeholders to suggest the five most pressing problems facing the industry. In our judgment, the single most important problem is that the United States has never had an adequately debated and coherent national air transportation policy. To put it another way, we have never bothered to put together what corporate America would call a mission statement or, in simple terms, a definition of the air transportation goals of public policy.
Just what is it we want the airline industry to do? Since 1978, we have behaved as if we want nothing other than the lowest possible fares, and if that is so, we might plausibly claim success. But is that really the case? Are we interested in having a financially sustainable air transportation system and in keeping small and mid-size communities connected to the rest of the country and the world? Do we want our airlines to provide the public with good customer service on modern and optimally maintained fleets? Should our airlines provide well-paid jobs and a secure career for the men and women who service the public at airports, and fly and maintain the aircraft we travel on? Do we want U.S. carriers good enough to compete on the world stage? Do we want to minimize both fuel usage and carbon emissions?
If the answers to those questions are yes, then we need to develop public policy objectives and a framework for effective analysis free of ideological convictions about the virtues of unregulated competition and regulatory oversight.
It should not take a tragedy in Buffalo to teach us that regional airlines that pay pilots very little and do nothing to assure adequate pilot rest are following a business model inconsistent with optimal safety. Nor do we need much analysis to know that sending sophisticated aircraft to lower-wage countries to be overhauled by workers whose backgrounds cannot be verified, who are not tested for drugs and alcohol, who rely on pictures in manufacturers' manuals because they cannot read detailed English instructions and whose oversight by FAA is uneven or non-existent, will not produce optimum maintenance outcomes.
We urge Secretary LaHood to allocate the first two months of the new committee's efforts to debating and forging consensus around transportation and air transportation public policy objectives. We think it is essential that the committee's sessions be open to the press so the public can judge for itself the wisdom of the objectives being decided on.
Let's take advantage of the attention being focused on this key industry to reshape its future in a way that strengthens our economy, benefits our workforce, improves the airline customer experience and enhances our position in international aviation.
Robert L. Crandall is the former Chairman and CEO of American Airlines; Kevin P. Mitchell is Chairman of the Business Travel Coalition.
Photo credit: Chicago Aviation Dept.
 
Tell that to JALWAYS pilots

Hi!

Air India has US pilots flying for them, at very high pay, because India does not have enough pilots. Same for Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa.

cliff
NBO

There is a reason they are temporarily well paid, it's a QOL tradeoff. Ask the JALWAYS pilots, some there for more than 10 years, how the job is? Those countries will develop their own, they just jump start the industry by finding some mercenaries, but they will dump the "high cost" expat labor once they can staff their operation with locals.
 
In Japan, the locals get paid MORE than expats. This was the case at JAL(ways), and is the case at ANA(Air Japan). I believe the middle east works the same. ie. locals get paid more.
 
Indian law requires all pilots in India to be nationals... it goes into effect in a couple years... IIRC...

It will be US law too... Just wait till you get pushed aside because you are an American. Chinese, Indian and Somali pilots are going to be interviewed first because of our enrich the world ideology, Plus the Chinese practically own our economy so whatever they say will go.
 
It will be US law too... Just wait till you get pushed aside because you are an American. Chinese, Indian and Somali pilots are going to be interviewed first because of our enrich the world ideology, Plus the Chinese practically own our economy so whatever they say will go.


I don't think so....

Rather it will be the same reason poor blacks and whites in America would rather collect a govt check than compete with illegal workers from central and south America......

Embrace the 'free' market....
 

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