Fly if you Qualify
It ain't "Fly 'til you Die," it's "Fly if you Qualify" (and want to). Have carefully checked the Constitution here in the United States... nowhere does it say "except for airline revenue pilots" when listing rights and freedoms. Qantas has never had a fatal accident in their domestic system and has no age limit... experience is an added safety enhancement (ask the FAA, January 30, 2007). They should be paying experienced pilots a bonus to stay on. The pipeline of motivated aviators is empty. Would you want your child to pursue a career that starts out at $16,000 a year with mountains of training debt? Mine builds Boeings... doesn't fly them. U.S. Congress is trying to rule you must have 1500 hours (ATP) to fly a commuter... just did not say where they are going to find them. Hours mean nothing. Overseas they are putting 200 hour pilots in the right seat of long haul and not allowing them to fly, but they are building hours! One F/O had zero landings after 500 hours! Another had three. Why do you think ICAO invented the Multi-crew pilot license; empty pipeline. Boeing can't sell planes without crews, so they train them off the street. Zero hours going in, 12 real landings coming out over a year later, good to go in the right seat (but not quaified or licensed to rent a single pilot plane and fly). It's gonna get ugly, and it is not the experienced pilots that are the problem. Hooray for the Canadians for sticking it out all these years to win their case. Wish they had done it years ago.