Originally Posted by
FurloughedX2
Perhaps the Plaintiffs are feeling duped because they bought tickets from Continental Airlines and assumed their family members were in the hands of experienced pilots on big jets but instead, they're dead. Just sayin'.
Agreed....the tickets said "Continental", the plane said "Continental", but the pilots and their selection, experience and training didn't.
Like it or not, a similarly sympathetic jury of the equally assumptive will bend CAL over for big bucks. Previous to that, "plausable deniability" ruled allowing majors to reap the benefits of selling their product using cheaper labor (in part due to inferior selection and training) and muddyig up the water on what the consumer was getting, yet have the ability to run and hide, claiming no responsibility if and when the negatives of that business strategy demonstrated themselves.
This could be a MAJOR player in the future in the costs of majors outsourcing their flying to Grace L. Ferguson operators all having to get and hold their business as the cheapest of the cheap.
The majors will now likely be fully liable for their outsourced flying and in fact, since they've got the most bucks, they'll be shoveling out most of the bucks in future code-share regional incidents/accidents.