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It is a knee jerk reaction to appease the flying public after Colgan and nothing more.
An ATP does not a pilot make...Common sense, skill, and judgement do not necessarily come with an ATP.
Captain Renslow had an ATP and yet, the inevitable ocurred.
Much like the TSA, this is just politically motivated window dressing and nothing more in my opinion.
YKMKR
It is a knee jerk reaction to appease the flying public after Colgan and nothing more.
An ATP does not a pilot make...Common sense, skill, and judgement do not necessarily come with an ATP.
Captain Renslow had an ATP and yet, the inevitable ocurred.
Much like the TSA, this is just politically motivated window dressing and nothing more in my opinion.
YKMKR
Heyas,
Not only is this a good idea, I've written my congress critters to tell them so.
It doesn't surprise me at all CAPA is for this. They are made up of unions from carriers who either have no regional feed, or in the case of AMR, certainly wish they didn't. This is almost precisely what I predicted would happen when things got tough. A few more steps down the road, and you'll see AirTran and SWA promoting that they do not outsource ANY flying.
In the same letter to my critters, I pointed out that nearly %100 of the problems related to crew rest, training, safety as well as customer service are the net result of outsourcing.
I also outlined how I thought that buying a ticket on one carrer, but finding out that it's actually another is a form of bait and swtich, and drew the recent Rochester debacle as a current example.
In my summation, I mentioned that by banning code share operations, congress could solve a majority of these problems in one fell swoop. If it flys on the code, it should fly on the certificate. If the contract carriers are as safe and provide a similar level of customer satisfaction, then certainly they should be able to stand on their own, rather than hiding behind the skirts of a major airline.
Our friends at COEX, Mesa, ASA, Comair, Skywest are so anxious to fly bigger, shinier jets, and with that I have no problem. I say release them from the shackles of flying under that pesky DL, UA, AA, or any other code you can think of. I say let them get as many big jets as they want, as long is it's on their own code and livery.
When they're responsible for their own booking, tickets, websites and so on after being weaned from the major airline teat, they might not find life so rosey..
Obviously, Congress isn't going to listen to JUST me, but when the next debacle happens, the idea will be planted in their head. Maybe some of the other ants on the hill may want to bug them, too...
Nu