Howgozit

So, next time I refuse to to go trough security and say on national TV that the TSA wants to see my junk, I get my bills paid also? He chose to go this route but I do feel sorry for his family!

Onfinal

If this statement represents the maximum efforts of your discernment, the full measure of your cognitive processes, then it is we that should feel sorry for you...and your family!

AKASHA

Please get down off that pedestal before you hurt yourself, doctor.

captjns

Perhaps the C/P and D/O of Expressjet should grow a pair between the two of them and put the lad back on the payroll WITH BACK PAY too!

EWRflyr

You are right. I'm sorry I even bothered to copy this to this side of the house. I guess mainline pilots are too good for the small-jet guys.

I never once commented either way on how he has handled things since "the day" it happened. However, as with anything, sometimes it takes one person to stand up and say, "Enough is enough." I give him credit for taking a stand for our civil liberties. At least the media exposure resulted in some movement for crew members.

brianb

Trough enough. Kudos to the man. Wish there were more folks like him.

BeenThere

And the answer is COURAGE. My check's in the mail.

SayAgain

Couldn't have said it better.

Just donated. Like a lot of pilots, I could've had a million reasons why I didn't have the money. The way I understand it, he's been on unpaid leave since mid-October and has a family to support.

To the guy who said that the union should handle it, Michael has brought more attention to crewmembers and security, through his actions and using the media, than the union has managed in years.

Crewpass has been bogged down in government red tape for years, and now they are finally starting to move on it. Regardless of your feelings on his actions, the next time you make it through security without having to produce porn or get groped, I'd like to think you have him to partially thank. Surely maintaining some dignity through security is worth something isn't it?

Here's a chance for us guys/gals to show some cohesiveness and to pull together and help one of their own.

I want to thank you Michael for having the guts to take a stand on something you felt was important to you, even at the uncertainty of your job security. Hoping to welcome you to the ASA family soon.

newcfii

It's kind of sad the "big jet," "little jet" mentality. The BIG jet drivers however will also benefit from the expedited process of having crew pass, no thanks to the "little jet" drivers' actions and stand against TSA's intrusive and demoralizing ways.
Isn't it funny how the Big Jet drivers are always so friendly and nice to us little jet drivers when they need a jump seat or ride to get to where they are going? But when they get off of our little jets all safe and sound at there destination, all bets are off! Just an observation.

winglet

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt