Flying Cheap- A Special On PBS Feb. 9
01-30-2010, 07:04 PM
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Flying Cheap- A Special On PBS Feb. 9
FRONTLINE: Coming Soon - Flying Cheap | PBS
The crash of Continental 3407 outside Buffalo last year, killing all on board, was big news, as any commercial crash is. But like many who were fortunate enough not to be touched personally by the tragedy, what most caught my attention was the news that followed. The co-pilot had been making less than $16,000.
While I knew the airline industry had been struggling through tough times since 9/11, I sure didn’t know that some of the folks that fly me around are working second jobs and overnighting on lounge room La-Z-Boys. And I didn’t know that regional airlines, once thought of as puddle-jumpers, had grown so fast that they now account for more than half the nation’s daily departures. We are on our way to becoming a regional airline nation.
It's nice to see anti-labor companies like Colgan gaining negative press.
Mainline pilots... thoughts?
The crash of Continental 3407 outside Buffalo last year, killing all on board, was big news, as any commercial crash is. But like many who were fortunate enough not to be touched personally by the tragedy, what most caught my attention was the news that followed. The co-pilot had been making less than $16,000.
While I knew the airline industry had been struggling through tough times since 9/11, I sure didn’t know that some of the folks that fly me around are working second jobs and overnighting on lounge room La-Z-Boys. And I didn’t know that regional airlines, once thought of as puddle-jumpers, had grown so fast that they now account for more than half the nation’s daily departures. We are on our way to becoming a regional airline nation.
It's nice to see anti-labor companies like Colgan gaining negative press.
Mainline pilots... thoughts?
01-30-2010, 07:07 PM
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This entire section of the industry is corrosive to the airline pilot career, lacking in safety, and should be completely unacceptable to anyone.
The more press it gets, the better, people's eyes need to be opened.
The more press it gets, the better, people's eyes need to be opened.
01-30-2010, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by yamahas3
This entire section of the industry is corrosive to the airline pilot career, lacking in safety, and should be completely unacceptable to anyone.
The more press it gets, the better, people's eyes need to be opened.
The more press it gets, the better, people's eyes need to be opened.
01-30-2010, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Blackbird
This is a very good interview, I'm happy its coming out still and not going away. When is ALPA going to have a march on Capital Hill to get the senate to get off there butt and do something?
01-30-2010, 08:50 PM
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Sadly, the same person that spends a week on Consumers Digest, looking for the best HDTV, will choose the cheapest airfare. Only to seal their family into a pressurized aluminum tube going 500 miles an hour through the national airspace system.
I only hope this will open some of their eyes.
I only hope this will open some of their eyes.
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