Originally Posted by Guppydriver95

We recently had to let a new Captain go because he flew through weather similar to this. In the investigation it was revealed that he told the FO that “if the company wants us to fly around the weather, they would have filed us that way”. Sadly, some of the quick upgrade, lesser experienced pilots have a different mentality. Perhaps the “we gotta get there” mentality is more prevalent in our industry than it used to be. I know some regionals push guys pretty hard, and perhaps that mentality is hard to change when they get here? As some have stated, it’s not a failure to avoid weather, burn fuel, add time to the trip etc. It’s what we are paid to do, in many cases.