“I smell the nasty stink of unions in this.”
Maybe not. By upping the hours to 1500 over the usual 500 this new rule keeps out many more pilots from becoming airline pilots and therefore union members.
“By upping the hours to 1500 over the usual 500 this new rule keeps out many more pilots from becoming airline pilots and therefore union members.”
You may have a point. I was looking at it from the standpoint of the current older and tired-out union pilots from being axed and replaced by younger ones.