Originally Posted by globalexpress

Did Great Lakes seriously send home guys that were a few hours short of 1500 hours, costing them probably tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars in economic damage, when they could have just rented a Cessna 150 and said, "Hey guys, here's a Cessna 150 all paid for. We'll pay you your pathetic 16 bucks an hour to go fly it around for a few hours until you hit 1500." They could have spent thousands to save tens of thousands.