Originally Posted by
ToCatLady
It’s all supply and demand. Right now the supply for U.K. airlines is far below the demand. Especially experienced folk.
Once this demand reaches critical they’ll go running to the CAA and will be forced to issue work visas which keeps operations going. Supply and demand balances again!
The issue is that EASA will NEVER reciprocate that deal for U.K. passport holders so in the long run the U.K. pilots will be disadvantaged.
This “shortage” of U.K. Pilots is a very short term problem I suspect.
There is actually no need with the points based immigration system. With that pretty much every prospective applicant qualifies for a work visa anyway, it is just the airlines that have to spend the 1.500 quid to sponsor, and they will do it in a heartbeat if they need to.