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DAL 88 Driver
Well, that is pretty depressing. Except the part about the job being enjoyable... I completely agree with you there. I don't agree that the market forces and supply/demand will always work against us. The public doesn't have much of an appetite for aviation disasters with fatalities. If it's true that lower quality pilots impact safety, then it's also true that this will result in fatal accidents (if it hasn't already). That has the potential to affect "market forces" and the market value of pilots considerably. It seems to me that we should do everything we can to positively affect our market value and to enhance aviation safety. I think we have a moral and professional responsibility to do that. Sitting silent or just resigning ourselves to "the inevitable" just doesn't seem right to me.
My CA and I were on this topic the other day. We both feel that the industry's safety record has and continues to hurt our income. Our industry has become so safe that the average passenger has become numb to the fact that they are in a thin metal tube at dangerous altitudes going 500+ MPH.
Perhaps if this industry had 3-6 fatal accidents per year we would be paid more?
Last edited by johnso29; 04-25-2010 at 07:03 AM.