Originally Posted by Check Essential

Bottom line. Is it safe to fly on a regional airline?

If the answer is "maybe", or "it depends", then we have a serious problem.

There are many excellent pilots but there are also an increasing number that have no business up there in that cockpit with 50 or 100 lives depending on them. Everybody in this industry knows it.

How in the he!! do we find ourselves operating a commercial flight with 50 passengers into Buffalo NY on a stormy winter night with a pilot who has never seen ice on an airplane before? And she's paid $16,000 a year, lives with her parents and serves coffee and donuts to supplement her income.
Not to mention the captain's highly questionable background and experience.
This accident disgusts me.

Are airline pilots willing to stand up and say in public that their airline may not be safe? Do we have the guts?
Is ALPA willing to play the safety card?

If you want real change then that's what its going to take.