News / Airline relief as US charts a new course to help trainee pilots gain flying hours

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Regional cargo airlines in the US have cause for celebration, for, after years of preaching to deaf ears in Washington, they have finally swayed lawmakers to ease the barriers for young pilots to fly commercial aircraft.

The administration has issued an omnibus FAA final training rule that opens a new avenue to pilots to build up the number of flight hours required to operate commercially.

A jubilant Stan Bernstein, president of the Regional Air Cargo Carriers’ Association (RACCA), informed members that with ...