Originally Posted by
bafanguy
No doubt about that. Crew members commute to US airlines from all over the world and have as long as I can recall. That's a personal, informal choice.
That's a different situation from an airline establishing a formal crew base outside the USA. And there have certainly been overseas bases for US airlines but they are not numerous and likely rather small.
The link you provided is regarding F/As.
It's difficult to keep up with what all US carriers are doing regarding crew basing.
Not
that difficult.
I think the only US carriers with foreign pilot bases were/are cargo (Atlas, Kalitta, Southern etc.), similar to what CX once offered (US and EU). F/As, different story. AA is required to hire Colombian nationals for cabin crew for them to operate the number of flights to Colombia. They are BOG based, have their own union and contract. The same goes for the Chilean and Peruvian. Not sure about Argentina or Brazil.
There are a few EU (ex-) pats that work in the US and live in the EU. Not many though. To me, it's worth it.