Originally Posted by
Mason32
After hearing the condition your airline returned the leased jets to AMR in, and then realizing that your Captains & FO's were accepting and flying paying passengers in those airplanes in that condition....
Well, I then formed a new opinion of TSA....
You do the best with what you've got. Hopefully you're not trying to say that the airplanes or crews were unsafe, as that isn't the case. The crews at TSA have the willingness and experience to refuse or write up an airplane, day after day, until it's fixed, and if not, ferry the piece of junk home. TSA is also flying one of the oldest fleets of embrear jets in the country, which undoubtably does have a relation to the number and type of write ups the airline experiences. If you wish to question the experience, and throw out the 250 hr pilots we hired, remember the number of furloughs in relationship to the size of the airline...you'll be hard pressed to find many current pilots at TSA w/o an ATP and EMB-145 PIC type...