I don’t mean to belabor the point… but suggesting that the IAA is bending the rules is also to perhaps suggesting that they are compromising safety in order to accelerate both the hiring and training process in order to accommodate Cityjet.
As previously stated, pilots in the US have had enough bad treatment when it comes to pay, benefit, and QOL. No one is going to uproot themselves, let alone their families to come to fly for Cityjet to experience the same treatment. In that respect MOR has not worries.
If there are no pilots to fly the planes, what are the airlines to do? Reduce their fleets? They can't do that. Look at EK, Singapore, Cathay, Eva... to name a few. I just don't know where the resentment is coming from. Why would anyone want to even think about going to the US to fly. They starting pay is less than what cabin crew in Europe earn. When and if there is a shortage of pilots in the US, the labor laws will be eased up as they were in the '80s and '90s, and once again there will be an influx of pilots from overseas. But in the mean time I don't understand what the problem is.
I don’t like individuals getting involved in a discussion to which they have no right to debate the point since they are not remotely affected. MOR about the insults… get a thicker skin. After all, you did cast the first stone my friend.