Delta now hiring Air Canada pilots

[accountant]

If a republican is in office they will side with the airlines for these visas.

Be a bit more specific.

"If a republican is in office, they will side with the airlines for these visas if it results in lower cost wages than what the unions are paying the top tier pilots to keep profits higher and costs lower".

[Mach1]

Must be some back room deal between the Can/US governments to keep the door shut.

This. Exactly this. If we were allowed to leave the country and go to the US the local airlines would have to pay comparable wages. There's a reason labour mobility is not a part of NAFTA like it is with the EU. You can be assured the CEO's of every business in Canada are lobbying all the parties to make sure you remain a source of cheap labour for the large canadian companies.

[CaptDukeNukem]

You guys are absolutely on crack. Do the research, instead of vague empty paranoid back room sH*t.

[Inverted2]

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to hear that some industry body here in Canada had bent the ear of a transport minister, who in turn had called his counterpart in DC, in order to deny Canadian pilots access to the US market.

These ears?

Seriously? I too may not be a fan of the guy but childish insults only serve to demonstrate that your childhood bullying of other’s continued on in adulthood.

Wow, just wow.


TPC

I take it you wouldn’t like to hear what I think of his co-workers or boss then?

[Pratt X 3]

These ears?

Seriously? I too may not be a fan of the guy but childish insults only serve to demonstrate that your childhood bullying of other’s continued on in adulthood.

Wow, just wow.


TPC

I take it you wouldn’t like to hear what I think of his co-workers or boss then?

No, not really, but thanks for asking.

[LegoMan]

If a republican is in office they will side with the airlines for these visas.

Be a bit more specific.

"If a republican is in office, they will side with the airlines for these visas if it results in lower cost wages than what the unions are paying the top tier pilots to keep profits higher and costs lower".

Despite the typical ALPA rhetoric wages wouldn’t go done. Ppl are not getting into the industry, Americans want to travel. The contract is there and airlines would be paying foreign pilots off the same scale. They aren’t Westjet.