From my perspective there is a huge quality advantage to an airliner with multiple lavatories and flight attendants, room for everyone's luggage, isn't usually at min fuel status the moment it leaves the gate, and that you don't have to walk outside to board. I agree that individual seat comfort & pitch varies widely--death row inmates have more space than most coach passengers. And yes, they should be maintained, dispatched and flown by mainline carriers who have the resources to do it right.

 

What does this have to do with SAFETY? And min fuel status, HA! Have you even flown an RJ?







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Agreed, so why do airline managers persist in refusing to fly a 777 from Peoria to Wichita? Three reasons: Cost, Money and Profit.

There's an old joke which applies here. A young computer engineer perfects a printer which never needs ink or paper refills, gives flawless, HD picture quality copies and can run over 100 years without need of repair. After presenting his work to his wife, she asked "how much will this printer cost?" "A million dollars each.......but we only need to sell one".

The airlines are in the same predicament. While there may be a market for comfort and high quality service (e.g. Midwest Airlines) it is a very small niche which may not be financially sustainable in today's market (e.g. Midwest Airlines).

 

Well said and agreed. I would advise anyone who talks to avoid personal attacks such as CEO Chokesondik won't be happy until a plane full of passengers are killed or even naming the airline such as I work for the industry's most dangerous airline; Flybynite Airways nicknamed "F'n'A". '

My humble advise is to look around the industry, and focus on what regs or system problem need to be changed in order to produce a safer product such as changes in the FT/DT rules and better pay. Explain the time and expense of training coupled with the fact we're all one medical away from being unemployed without even a kiss goodbye.

 

Miles O'Brien is a respected friend of aviation, aerospace technology and the environment. If you are not familiar with his reporting I can assure you that he will report only the honest facts.

Miles O'Brien - Uplinks - True/Slant

Deregulation has been a double edged sword. It has allowed competition to provide cheap transportation to the masses while simultaneously and quietly lowering safety and quality to the barest minimum.

 

Comfort on board has nothing to do with safety, but if you offer a washboard seat and a single smelly lav and your competition offers something better then you have a problem. Never flown an RJ, but I've noticed they're always first to divert when the weather goes down.

 

Frontline is authentic investigative journalism, and it can lead to action. I remember one story about six years ago about a wrongly convicted poor kid that resulted in such a deluge of mail (5000+ letters) that the case was reopened and overturned, solely because of a Frontline investigation.

I've been around a long time, but I know I still haven't seen it all and done it all, but I do know there are some 24 year old 121 captains out there who don't even know what they don't know. They can't; there is a certain level of awareness, vigilance, and discipline that can only come from decades of experience. This is not meant as a personal attack against any particular pilot, but it truly is all I can think about when I watch my family board a jet with a skipper who was born the year I learned how to fly.

Request anonymity, but please grow a spine and help this man develop a story that has a chance of improving this industry for everyone, especially the passengers who are at our mercy. If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Fly safe.

 

i hope when the show airs, the narator is the dude with "the voice". I always practice "the Voice" in my baron, but it has no effect on checks...soob.

 

I would like to see your source for this statement. I assure you, aviation is MUCH safer today than it was during regulation.

 

Please go away.

You are a journalist first, and a pilot last. You defame our profession with your ill advised commentary on television. Anyone who aids you in dirtying our business anymore than the fringe media has thus far is no friend of the professional pilot.

Regards,