While I welcome the required experience, I dread how this will cause chaos in the schedules pilots will have with companies scrambling to cover a schedule they don’t have pilots for.
Nobody wants to be a pilot these days, but how can you blame them with training costs (which can be easily $100k) skyrocketing, and first year pay at regional carriers below $30k, and in some cases $20k. Even the majors start out at a marginally live able wage.
Foreign carriers?
That is another story...(much better)
Chicago Transit Authority bus drivers make 60k without overtime.
And they get to go to sleep at their own house every night.
They may crush a car on occasion, but never fall out of the sky.