Originally Posted by
toomanyrjs
It was very I hate to use the pejorative term low rent, Morgan said. It was really a shoestring operation.
"So, too, were the pilots. With the airline industry starting to run short on experienced pilots leaving the military and regionals like Colgan paying less than half what pilots would make at the major airlines, Morgan noticed that some of the Colgan pilots were not the same caliber as those at Continental."
I wonder if be same could be said about Republic. RAH pretty much took over Colgan's Q operation. The IBT at Republic also tried and failed to install the top 300 lifers into the Airbus captain seats at F9 during the whole failed "merger" fiasco.
RAH is running the Q operation and for that matter their entire airline in exactly the same way that Colgan operated. So really no change there. As far as the 300 lifers, many of them should not be flying anything that carries passengers. Many of the lifers were so bad that they had been repeatedly rejected by the majors over the years, hence the term "lifer." When I was at RAH I was told by several captains that they would personally refuse to deadhead on a flight operated by certain RAH pilots because they did not trust their flying abilities. I also witnessed a female captain who was my simulator partner for a PC perform in such a disturbingly poor manner that it made me scared to ever be a passenger on any of her flights.