Is There a Future for Pilots?

republic airlines has petitioned the f a to reduce the pilot minimum training hours from 15 hundred to seven 50 for new hires. And senator lindsay graham of south carolinais considering legislation to raise the pilot retirement age from 65 67. Chris: Do you think there's going to be some policy decisions to help the situation, or where's this all going? Well, chris, i actually like both of these solutions, i think, for lots of reasons. Lowering the training hours, the minimum required hours, is still three times higher than it used to be before the terrible cogan airways crash. Yet it creates the ability for regionals to hire a little more