Originally Posted by
Superpilot
A boy can dream but I hope this is the beginning of an era in British aviation where an airline can wipe out it's competition just by paying staff more and attracting talent thereby forcing the competition to park their planes. Wizz, Lauda and even BA EF haven't got a leg to stand on now have they? It is already happening in the US where the
lowest paying companies are being forced to
scale back operations, and may well happen in the UK as the availability of qualified pilots with UK work rights dries up. Watch this space carefully!
As soon as it starts to hit operations, the bigger airlines will go cap in hand to the Government, who’ll lower the already fairly low bar for work visas and push the CAA into accepting EASA licenses (or at least make the transfers dead easy) even without any reciprocity.
This ain’t the US, sadly.