If they start getting their own airplanes in 2017, the timing would be perfect for pilot supply: boatloads of people retiring from US airlines, many of whom will have lots of B767 time and won't care if they're the captain or not.
Just make it a Part 125 operation where, if I remember correctly, there's no age limit for flight crew. This has several advantages:
1) Old guys don't sleep all that well so they're going to be awake all night anyway.
2) The job won't pay very well so Amazon can afford to put three pilots on every airplane so they'd have a spare if one dies in the seat in flight. And there's no one aboard to be alarmed that a pilot died in flight...won't even make the news and generate negative publicity.
2a) Maybe three pilots won't be necessary since one old fart can manage a B767 quite nicely alone...and probably hated the guy who died anyway. No emergency landing required...just continue to original destination.
2b) Two old guys are unlikely to died simultaneously (of natural causes) on the same leg.
3) Amazon won't be forced by Obamacare to provide health insurance as the pilots would all have Medicare which fortunately provides a $255 burial benefit which is about enough to get someone to come retrieve the body from the freight ramp before it decomposes.
4) There'd be no pension obligation to fund as they'd all have Social Security (and won't live long enough to collect a company pension anyway).
5) They won't unionize since they'd all be sick & tired of getting screwed by ALPA in the past.
6) The pilot supply is virtually endless.
7) If all that fails, just use that special visa deal to get as many Aussies as possible.
I really should've been in management !!
Last edited by bafanguy; 18th Dec 2015 at 13:38.