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The bill would:
• Require that all airline pilots obtain an Airline Transport Pilot license, which is currently only needed by captains. Pilots must have a minimum of 1,500 flight hours to obtain the license. Co-pilots may now be hired at airlines with as little as about 200 hours, though most begin airline work with more experience.
• Mandate that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within 90 days set up a new database of pilot records so that airlines will have access to more information before they hire someone for the cockpit. The captain of the jet that crashed near Buffalo had failed several FAA-mandated tests of his piloting skills, but his airline did not know about all of them when it hired him.
• Direct the FAA within one year to rewrite the rules for how long pilots can work. Several attempts to rewrite the rules to make piloting less prone to fatigue have failed in recent decades. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt also has vowed to update the rules.
• Require airlines and travel websites when they sell tickets to disclose the name of the carrier operating the flight. About half of all flights are operated by regional airlines working under contract to major carriers, but those regionals almost never sell tickets directly to passengers. Most of the regional flights are flown with the name of the major carrier painted on their aircraft.
• Set up numerous studies and task forces to examine how best to train pilots, minimize pilot fatigue and run a safe airline.
What would happen at the regionals when a new hiring phase like two years ago occurs?
Say they do pass this bill, you'll have ATP rated pilots that just emptied out there wallets going to make $20,000 a year...Though pilots should be paid way better, the truth of the matter is that the small margins regionals operate on would not allow them to pay pilots any better than they do now. On top of that, come 2012 when all of your age 65 guys retire and the hiring picks way up, this bill will probably just end up being thrown out the window...
I say no. I say the FAA should require all airlines to make the ATP mins their hiring mins, and that's it.
This shouldn't be like SWA, wwhere you have to pay for a type or ATP to get a job.
The airlines should be the one forking out the cash for the types and ATP ratings.
No? Then why did I have to shell out for the commercial certificate. Should the airlines have paid for me to get that too?
I think many want to avoid the ATP because of significance of the check-ride. IMO failing your ATP ride is a little different than failing your Multi Commercial ride.
What would happen at the regionals when a new hiring phase like two years ago occurs?
Say they do pass this bill, you'll have ATP rated pilots that just emptied out there wallets going to make $20,000 a year...Though pilots should be paid way better, the truth of the matter is that the small margins regionals operate on would not allow them to pay pilots any better than they do now.