Originally Posted by
FighterHayabusa
I remember flying West Jet and the F/A telling the passengers how many 10's of thousands of hours the flight crew had. It made me feel safer that I could divide that into a number of years spent in the cockpit.
In my effort to singlehandedly better the work conditions and increase pay for pilots, I've sent my first op-ed piece telling the flying public to inquire about the experience level of their flight crew before they buy the cheapest ticket. I suggest everyone here do the same.
As long as people are blissfully unaware that they are flying with an FO who has paid to be there and only has 190 hrs, and a captain who only ever flew a real jet on their IOE, companies will continue to hire low time pilots who will work for nothing.
A F/A can tell me more B.S!! Did you see with your own eyes that they had 10's of thousands of hours?
Ofcourse not...how would a F/A know that? hmm...the crew told her?
The public doesn't really care about the experience....the majority of the public thinks that you have to a dinosaur to be a captain....
everytime a 20y kid tells someone that they're an airline pilot...
"oh, don't you have to go to schoolf for 10years?" "but you're so young"
Thats the same B.S you get everytime....the public, maybe some exceptions, but majority doesn't know a thing about aviation....so asking themselve "how qualified is my crew" is not floating around in their mind....
and they have a lot of more important things to think about than to debate whether a flight crew is qualified or not....
They passed the writtens, passed sim rides, even INSURANCE companies accept it...who the hell are you?