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B757200ER
Put it this way: Two airlines, twoi VERY different styles, cultures and procedures. Noone wants to change after 20 years doing something. TWA was always putting safety as #1. Our procedures reflected that.
True statement.
TWA's cockpit culture was miles ahead of ours (AA.) I've said many times before, we could only be so lucky as to have that type of cockpit culture. AA's cockpit culture is still stuck in the 1950s, very old-fashioned. One thing I never agreed with at AA is that they don't really train the copilots to be captains from day one. When you're an AA F/O, that's all you are - fly the a/c on your leg, work the radios on the CA's leg. "Son, you'll learn all of this stuff some day when you upgrade." And sadly, if you talk to most AA F/Os, they reflect this attitude. "PAs? That's not my job!"
TWA's attitude was - you are a Captain in training, from day one. Excellent, and I wish we would adopt that.
In a truly perfect merger (is there such a thing?), the newly merged airline will adopt the best procedures of the old airline and dump the worst. Some people talk about Jetblue, being such a mix of old airlines, they took the best from all of those airlines and adopted them for their procedures.
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