Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
On thousand hours of airline experience has to be better than a thousand hours of touch and goes in a Cessna 152 in regards to beneficial flight experience for an airline career.
Not completely incorrect, but basic assumption is flawed. A thousand hours of airline experience is FAR INFERIOR to a thousand hours flying a C-152 for learning, developing, and practicing basic airmanship. THAT is what was lacking in Colgan (and in other pilots according to former co-workers now redistributed back to the regionals).
It may be a jet, but you still have to have basic skills ingrained - you don't get that in a -121 environment, and you need to have it before you get there.