Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
I tell you the traveling public will care a lot when those minimum wage pilots end up with a hull loss and loss of life because they were fatigued on a maximum duty day with no work rules, pressured to fly an unsafe plane or they'll be fired and another low cost worker replace him.
To everyone else, this guy must not have a job flying. He's a management stooge or college professor not in the real world. He seems to lack a horse in this race. Just my opinion. Not worth debating anymore.
Still worth taking a few minutes to get the E-mail sent to your reps. Just do it.
Clearly you do not know me, but that's okay. I will not enter a character or experience debate with you. Suffice it to say I have a little bit of airline experience (26 years) and am current on the B777 and B787.
.....and again you show you do not know what you are talking about when you make a statement like "minimum wage pilots....". The crews of NAS, and NAI in the future, are mainly Europeans with EASA licenses. The initial batch captains have significant B747, B777, and B767 command time. The F.O.s they have hired also have significant experience. To infer that they are somehow inferior to U.S. pilots is just another specious argument.
EASA flight and duty time regulations are superior to the U.S. FARs so fatigue is far more likely at a U.S. carrier than at a European carrier.
.....and again, I am not all for NAI it's just that if you are going to somehow win this argument you've got to have good points against them. There has to be a logical and legal reason to block them other than the emotional sound bites I keep seeing posted here.
TP