Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
If you or anyone else can't find "professional development" from reading those historical perspectives of our industry and apply them to the circumstances of the last 20 or so years up to and including today...well, we're bound for another frakkin' Cylon loop because all of this has happened before and will happen again.
Getting pilots new(ish) to this industry to realize there is history pre-2011 seems to be a battle. Let alone learning the roots of the industry.
However, if people would even spend even a cursory amount of time reading the books you mentioned, they'd realize that none of this is new, and today's airline management is still pulling from the playbook of E.L. Cord, George T. Baker, Dick Ferris, Frank Lorenzo, etc....