Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I agree. I personally think we should go to PS to the first point of departure. Heck with PBS they can build with great efficiency schedules that would work for every pilot to live wherever they want. There would be a cost to that. Just making commuting or the lack there of law, is a lot cheaper. See above post.
Like it or not, the unions have some (small amount) culpability in this too. Instead of calling a spade a spade and recognizing human pilot error was at fault, unions try to protect the obviously stupid among us. We should protect the innocent and protect our rights to due process but when all is said and done we have to recognize that some of us make mistakes.
ALPA is missing a golden opportunity here by not trumpeting the lack of ATP qualifications for regional carriers junior FO positions. Yes, there has been some movement towards that but that bill is not garnering the press that the fatigue issue is. ACL is right, it's the low cost solution. ALPA should be out there every day shouting Safety, like Freedom, is not Free!