Originally Posted by LeineLodge

We have lots of pilots screw up much worse than this on a regular basis. I can't ever recall a situation where the pilot was made to publicly confess his sin to the world. My reference to professional standards was my roundabout way of saying there might be a more constructive way to handle it than "accept my demand or I'm turning you over to the FBI." What if the next time Tim decides to call the FAA because one of our pilots had a deviation. In my mine its the same idea. Not saying the individual (if he actually exists) was right and that he shouldn't apologize. I'm just saying Tim was awfully quick to escalate this thing.

All that said, given what I've seen of the crew van news updates recently, I'm skeptical that everything in today's update is squeaky clean. In fact, I'm suspicious that some of it is downright fabricated.

Time will tell, but I sense this is shaping up to be another DPA folly.