“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.
Airline pilots are goners by regulation at 60; 65 under some conditions. You’d think the unions would want all the young guns they could get.