Originally Posted by
johnso29
Really? It's not managements fault that they won't pay in line with the average cost of living for the domicile the pilot is based in? It's not managments fault that a pilot is expected to live in DCA or JFK on less then $20K per year? I'm sure management gets cost of living increases. I'm sure they get bonuses that come off the backs of the pilots. I'm sure they don't have the control to pay pilots a livable wage.
Yeah, it's all the pilots fault and management has NOTHING to do with it. Something tells me you must be management.
Say regional airline A decides to pay its pilots a reasonable wage to live in domicile (or anywhere for that matter). Airline B now comes in an underbids airline A because its pilots are willing to live in a crew room. What is airline A supposed to do? What choice does mgmt have?
BTW I'm not mgmt.
I understand I'm not NTSB and I'm definitely not saying there is not a fatigue problem in the industry (there obviously is). I researched the background for this capt. He had numerous failed checkrides and sub par performance (in terms of airmanship). I read the CVR and watched the NTSB animations. He stalled the aircraft because of poor airmanship. Maybe fatigue played a factor in it, but the aircraft crashed because of poor airmanship, and he was not a poor airman because he was tired.
Are you blaming his failed checkrides and poor past performance on fatigue too?