Australian pilots can work for US regionals.

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Originally Posted by bafanguy

These airlines kick around lots of ideas particularly now when pilot supply (one way or another) is an issue. Sometimes we get to hear about them...often we don't. This is my favorite one re Horizon Air from two years ago. What became of this ?:

“Haugaard outlined another workaround to the U.S. rule that Horizon is considering.

He said Alaska Air is in discussion with “a major international airline” about a plan to have prospective pilots go overseas, “operating under different rules,” and build up their 1,500 flight hours flying for the foreign airline in a Bombardier Q300 turboprop, an earlier variant of the Q400, then returning to the U.S. to fly for Horizon.”

?A painful and frustrating experience?: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall | The Seattle Times

The only trouble with that idea would be that the magic 1000 hours for command has to be operating under FAR 121 not RPT under another regulator