Are we ever going to see US style pay. If not, why not?

[Garcia37]

Originally Posted by bafanguy

If the EU were to up the required post-licensing hours for aspiring airline F/Os, would the industry/aviation infrastructure over there be able to provide some mechanism to get these low-hour pilots a sizeable increase in hours to satisfy increased hour requirements ?

Really good question.

I was going to answer you, but it's basically the same asspiffolo said above.

We don't (Europe) have enough GA jobs to implement a 1500h rule and pump up those T&C's and salaries.
We are so focused on commercial-airline aviation that it sucks. Other GA jobs, even for business or medical transport jets, crop dusting, pipeline patrol (I don't think we even have that) are really niche and simply not enough. It was once, though.
Even some of them are dying by technology (drones) and others by the EU law (crop dusting in Spain at least).
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