Originally Posted by
awair
Their reasoning is that the shortage is a situation designed to justify “that the labor certification will be successful”.
There are other, more reliable arguments for National Importance.
Yes, after speaking to other pilots at my Canadian airline it seems that there have been other recent denials and RFEs and many have used the same "pilot shortage" argument.
From my RFE letter, it seems that a stronger argument would be a plan to help train American pilots at the airline level to advance the national interest instead of just doing airline flying as a line pilot.
I am thinking an airline pilot who is also a TRI/TRE or maybe a pilot starting an aviation business in the US and planning to hire American pilots would be a stronger argument and more likely to make it through.
Unfortunately, I don't have training experience at the airline level so I can't use that as a valid argument in my case.