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This coming from Mr. Make Believe Gulfstream pilot.To me as horrible as it may be to say, he has a point.
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This coming from Mr. Make Believe Gulfstream pilot.To me as horrible as it may be to say, he has a point.
There no secret that regionals are flying mainline size jets on former mainline routes for regional pay.
Yes, blame it on mainline pilots giving up scope, but the fact remains, there is a pilot group willing to fly mainline size jets on mainline routes for drastically lower pay than in the past. For management, it makes great business sense.
Besides, what is a "mainline size jet"? 50 seats, well not according to mainline pilots. 60 seats? 70 seats?
http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-pa1736.shtmlSOURCE: Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/39999982.html
One of the nasty little secrets that the airline companies don't want the traveling public to know is that although the ticket was sold as a Continental Airlines flight, the actual company doing the flying was Colgan Airways of Manassas, Va.
That nasty little secret is printed on every boarding pass and website where the tickets are sold.
Capt. Scott B. KaleyOf course, the results are quite predictable when the combined flying experience aboard most mainline air carriers is greater than the combined ages of those flying at regional air carriers.
By far, the worst airline disaster in history was piloted by a 12,000 hour pilot with KLM. He was also a training Captain. The other pilot of the other aircraft involved in the accident had 21,000 hours. In the case of KLM 4805, it was the less experienced FO that tried to talk him out of doing the takeoff. Around 500 people died.
excuse me but dont most main line pilots start out as regional inexperienced ones?
kf4amu said:The problem is the unintended consequences of pushing the experienced pilots out of the profession (60 percent of the USAir pilots that were offered recall...who incidently would have been furloughed again had they accepted recall) has made it less safe.
There no secret that regionals are flying mainline size jets on former mainline routes for regional pay.
Yes, blame it on mainline pilots giving up scope, but the fact remains, there is a pilot group willing to fly mainline size jets on mainline routes for drastically lower pay than in the past. For management, it makes great business sense.