Originally Posted by neville_nobody
That ain't going to happen because all those Indians do not have the coin to pay for their training.
Enough of them do. Plenty of rich indians out of a grand total of 1 billion. Just like enough of them have the coin to pay for their dodgy medical school training and end up elsewhere peddling their "skills".
Originally Posted by neville_nobody
IT got burned by India because those people can live in their own country and work through the Internet for peanuts, same with call centres, not so in aviation.
The competitive advantage in wages only works if people stay in their 3rd world country. If Mr Harshvardhan wanted to migrate from India to Australia and be a 737 FO he ain't going to survive on Indian wages. You'll need to pay him Australian wages and so the competitive advantage is lost.
You're missing the point. It is not about competitiveness or trying to get these indians to slave for less. It's about filling the front seats of the airplanes. How many threads have you seen around here pointing to ads featuring unfeasibly low (by old standards) experience requirements? Regionals happy to take guys with 500hrs... that sort of thing.
Originally Posted by neville_nobody
Personally I'd be more worried about a MPL license that is where airlines will start paying people peanuts if they can get CASA to rewrite the rules.
Exactly. And who do you think a lot of the holders of these licences will be?
Originally Posted by neville_nobody
Don't forget that half the pilots in Europe would not have the minimum experience requirements to fly a PA 31 in Australia let alone a jet
Half the pilots in Europe would have no interest in flying a PA31 because with only a handful of hours, they can jump into the RHS of a 737.
This idea in Aust that you need thousands of hours to fly a piston twin is very outdated. As employers are beginning to find.