Originally Posted by
rod_1986
I can’t understand why the US majors haven’t simply pressured the US Government to open up more visas for experienced pilots and the FAA to start cross-recognising other regulator’s licences. This (amazing and impressive) virtuous pay spiral will cost them billions of dollars in the long term.
Or is the lobbying power of ALPA (et al) so much stronger than we have with unions this side of the pond?
Genuine answers from our American colleagues welcome! In the meantime I’ll just look on in awe.
In fairness, it’s quite difficult for an American to obtain citizenship and the right to work in EU as well.
With regards to your second question, I’m not aware of a massive effort by ALPA or APA (AA pilot’s union) to keep visa holding pilots out of our flight decks. The real fight on capital hill is against EU flag of convenience carriers like Norwegian. 787 Captains making somewhere in the neighborhood of 140K (I think). We certainly don’t want that getting any traction on this side of the pond.
Here’s Isom in his own words btw.
