Originally Posted by
Too Beaucoup
You guys have been conditioned by the countless national seniority list posts to think every thing is about sharing and caring.
What I said was exactly what you just wrote. Your reading comprehension skills fail you, and thus you are just another speed bump I am stuck navigating around on my way to the left seat.
No, my post was about one seniority list at every air carrier, one per every airline certificate, thus allowing for the touted one level of safety.
You should do your homework before posting. This idea was actually first brought to the floor back in 1996, but it wasn't driven by safety, but rather bargaining power and economics. Ironically, it was rejected then by the same pilot group that now wants it because they are witnessing the demise of what was then a great airline.
You wanna talk about safety? How about we start with the baseline? How about we start with the agency tasked with enforcing the standards? You see, all naive one, you could have one seniority list industry-wide, or airline-wide, but if there's no element of corporate accountability, then safety won't improve. Colgan 3407 didn't happen because of two pilots, it happened because of the lack of safety culture at Colgan, and the FAA simply looked the other way. If you would just stop letting your ego speak for you, and take the time to see that we operate in a heavily regulated industry without an element of enforcement at the corporate level, then maybe just maybe you would see that you're trying to address the symptom and not the disease.
If you need anymore reference material here are couple of links for you:
FAA inspectors: Southwest tried to hide safety problems - CNN.com
FRONTLINE: flying cheap: watch the full program | PBS
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