Want to fly a 787 out of JFK?

[skyboat]

So you want the decent paying US pilot jobs to be destroyed like the US maritime industry? How exactly does that help your career? I understand the frustration with ALPA, but you can't see the forrest for the trees.

As a former merchant mariner with an unlimited Masters license and a former Part 121 airline pilot, I can tell you that there are very few, if any, similarities between the two industries. In fact, job protection laws such as the Jones Act probably hastened the decline of the US maritime industry. The only similarities actually appear to be that the unions have managed the decline of both industries. Once organized labor was no longer relevant in the maritime industry did the job prospects and wages actually start to increase. Don't get me wrong, I am fairly pro ALPA but when they try to regulate the supply and price of labor then that helps create the distortions in the labor market that you currently see in the US airline industry.