the real story in all of this should be about the major airlines OUTSOURCING flying to the lowest bidders essentially outsourcing safety. Passengers buy a ticket on DAL, CAL, UAL, etc and they expect to be flown by that airline. Then they show up and fly on XYZ airline. If the media would get that into the story passengers would really be irritated. EWR-BUF used to be flown by CAL on dc9s and 737's and now are flown by Colgan which has shotty mx, training, and pay.

I just wish the media would get onto that subject. Outsourcing safety to the lowest bidder.

My old regional had a good training department which increased the cost of doing business and guess what happened? Continental said You guys are too expensive we're bringing Colgan in to fly for us....