From your original posting... I guess.
America IS aggressively protectionist - that is a fact. Particularly when it comes to immigration (unless you are Mexican of course). However, my beef was never with the Americans, it's with the Irish.
No! It's hear say. Show us the so-called memo on the company's letterhead that supports your claim.
Well, if you want to be silly...
Many of us know whats going on, read the post above. If you want to stick your head in the sand, go right ahead.
If you are typed and current on the 146 as a TRE and SFI, you may wish to donate some of your time to get your buds recurrent and requalified on the 146. Discuss the issue with a training facility that has a 146 regarding hourly prices for simulators. See if the IAA would be agreeable to such a plan. From what I understand they are resonable chaps.
You clearly know nothing about the industry over here. That would never work with any of the sims I have visited, they have their own instructional staff and they ain't cheap. Secondly, a TRE qualification needs to be supported by an employer to be valid - I couldn't sign off a LPC/OPC even if I wanted to. It's irrelevant anyway, as the company would just have to do it again when they employed the pilot. And in any case, Cityjet aren't looking for a quick session in the sim, they want you to have flown the aircraft recently. And even if all that wasn't a problem, the IAA have just opened the door to US pilots, so why do you think they would want to support such an unworkable plan?
I'm sure you are just arguing for the sake of it. I can respect that, it's good fun. But if you don't get how this disadvantages EU pilots, I can only surmise that you are an American with no regard for your Euro colleagues.