User Fees a good thing?

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User fees would make GA flying more expensive.

This in turn would make flight training more expensive.

This in turn would yield a lower number of applicants for various licenses because of the associated costs.

This in turn would result in fewer commercial pilots, and aspiring commercial pilots due to the higher costs, as well as when they see the cost:reward ratio.

This would (maybe, hopefully) push airlines to increase incentive to new-commers to the industry by increasing wages, work rules, and benefits.

This would also give current professional pilots an edge, and hopefully lower the supply of pilots, with an increased demand for them in a post crisis, growing aviation industry.


Would be bad news for the typical weekend warrior. But for professional pilots I believe this would be a good thing.

Thoughts?
 
Regardless of whether or not it is good or not we're one of the few countries that doesn't have it so it is probably just a matter of time.
 
Not really. I don't see that happening, I think the airlines will start training just like they do in Europe.

Pay will never ever go back up.
 
User fees=dumb.
Look at other countries and their methods of airline training/hiring/working. You interview with an airline, they hire you, train you, own you for life. Their wages are no better than anywhere else.
The future is here. More automation=less skill=lower pay.
 
BajtheJino said:
User fees=dumb.
Look at other countries and their methods of airline training/hiring/working. You interview with an airline, they hire you, train you, own you for life. Their wages are no better than anywhere else.
The future is here. More automation=less skill=lower pay.
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Not all countries, and not all airlines will hire you, then train you and own you for life.

Who's wages arent better then anywhere else? As far as I know, in any country comparable to the U.S pilots get paid, and treated better. Whether they trained themselves, or the airline did.

And the poor wages don't have much to do with more automation = less pay, but more to do with the fact that pilots in this industry can't negotiate better pay, and are at managements mercy. The only options pilots have to help themselves are to either quit, and leave all together, or continue taking it. Coupled with there are more pilots then jobs, and SJS.
 
SpiraMirabilis said:
According to AOPA claims GA in the US carries more passengers in the US than any one airline. Much less efficiently too. So, why should airlines pay for traffic jams caused by GA?
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Any One airline?? Hub and Spoke GA? You can do better than that.
 
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