The Truth about Airlines

[CFI2766]

It's interesting, when I tell friends outside of the industry what pilots make nowadays, they stand in shock, then they tell me how much they like Airtran and Jetblue. I hate to say it, but until some major accidents happen one after the next, the public won't care one bit. They just want to fly cheaply....until they can't fly safely.

Does anyone not believe this to be the case? It stinks, but this is what it will take to get folks to care about the quality of their flight crews.

Why should they? Care about the flight crews, that is? Expedia saves the day.

 

[Turtlesfly]

hate to be even more pessimestic . . . but not even accidents will stop people flying for cheap money. Southwest slid off the runway in MDW, and they're still packing them in there. Doubt if those pax even know anything at all about the accident anyways.

 

[XPOO]

It still makes me cringe when they point out that we can only "work" 1000 hours per year. It's so misleading.

Daz a cuz Mahspayz Tahm iz uh ecspurt wen it cumz to ava-ashun. Hiz ecspurteez in da feeyild dun tellz him datz u ownlee werks a towzund ow-erz ah yeer. Knot twintee fie hundid. He iz ecspurt. I'z no nuttin. nuttin atawl.