flynavyj

This little article came out in the STL paper the other day, mentioning trans states airlines, and the state of pilots in the industry...some of things are nice to have pointed out, but other pieces of it might be "insulting" to some of the aviators. either way, not a "terrible" article, considering the media.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/bus...7?OpenDocument

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flyerfly

Haha awesome to see Ben Church on there. He was fun to fly with on reserve a few times.

POPA

Am I the only person who read the comment about TSA's 545 cockpit seats and wondered how exactly they came up with that number?
545 seats / 2 seats per plane = 272 and a half aircraft
Even if we count the jumpseat in that number, that still gives TSA about 180 aircraft. Have you all really done that much expansion since I left?

mperrizo

Even if they had that many planes I would love to see the seating arrangment to move 20% of the nations passengers. "Trans States Airlines, that fly about 20 percent of the nation's air passengers".

Did they forget to move the decimal two places over?

cbire880

I'm betting the writer intended to say that regional airlines fly 20% of the nations passengers.

weasil

No you just didn't quote the entire sentence.

That's exactly what the writer did say... see above.

Shrek

And JR the new MEC Chairman in the background with his arms crossed......."Yeah what he said!" type look on his face

Zach

Church is hilarious and fun to fly with.

Zach

The author probably meant 545 pilots is how many Trans States needs to keep staffed.

XJPILOT1

"Now is the pilots' time," Jannik said. "Now is the time that we get it back."