Originally Posted by
toomanyrjs
It doesn't happen more often at the mainline level. It just makes the news more often. A drunk 777 captain in some far off city is a more exciting headline as opposed to a drunk regional punk in Des Moines.
Yeah, those darn regional punks. You're right though, it's not clearly exciting as a couple of pilots falling asleep while flying from San Diego to Minny, or as exciting as landing on a taxiway, or as exciting as the CA still using the tiller while on the runway, battling his FO and veering their plane off the runway in Denver...