Just like the saying "somebody **** their pants, so now we all have to wear diapers."

 

Ummmmmmmm, I'm tellng.

What a bunch of crap. This sort of trash really makes me proud to be a Colganite...Happy New Year!

 

I read the article in the Bufflalo website. Anyone know if the USA Today has been sent the memo?

 

Is anyone suprised given who is really in charge here? Pinnacle Corp. This is the most ludacris policy ever created. Basically they are telling you when you can be tired. So if you have kids and one of them goes to the hospital and keeps you up all night but you as a good worker report to work but then half way through your rediculous 7 leg day you realize you aren't safely operating this flight anymore so you chose to call in fatigued, you will now be punished for that!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously - how is this corporation and both of its airlines staying in business with their knee jerk reactions, pathetic staffing models, and draconian work rules????????????????? They have to be paying someone off.

 

There are 3 things in aviation and you almost always only get to pick 2: Safety, On-Time, and Cost. Pinnacle Corp proves time, time, and time again which two they find important.

 

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

So here's the BIG question that will really hit everyone hard. Ready?

If this policy was in effect before the Buffalo crash of flight 3407, would either of the two pilots been allowed to call in fatigue for that flight?

 

No, and it doesn't surprise me one bit. The first thing that probably on PT's mind the morning when he found out about the crash was that they just lost one flight's worth of completion factor. He even cracked a bit of a smile and joke in his news conference the next morning before catching himself.

Newsflash, Everyone (public, FAA, NTSB, pilots, ...): Pinnacle would rather have people DIE than compromise their profit margins. Every single thing they put out, even if disguised as safety related, is 100% created for financial reasons. These people are evil and from someone on the outside looking in, it is completely disgusting. I will NEVER, EVER let anyone I know get on a Pinnacle Corp aircraft. You guys, the ones of you who work for Pinnacle or Colgan, need to stand up against that company. Nobody else, including even the FAA, will and it really needs to happen before they kill more people. Figure out some way to stand together and fight this company, the industry needs it and public deserves it.

 

Actually, the lawsuit and insurance liabilities compromise the profit margin. That is why the policy just released is so perplexing. It harms their profit margin potential. Think of the way this will play in front of a jury. Incredibly shortsighted even from a profit margin view. Makes me want to start an airline with competition management decisions like this example.

 

Speachless...........the beatings will continue until morale improves.

 

Maybe their "industry average" pay of 23,000 a yr in one of the most expensive domiciles is the problem. NAH!!!!

Colgan management is used to treating its employees like they are flying small turbo-props. For years regionals treated small prop pilots like garbage because who cared if a Beech 1900 flight was delayed 6 hrs until they could deadhead a new pilot up to an outstation. they fired the offending pilot and life went on. 20 people with disrupted travel plans is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Now they are flying a big airplane with double to almost quadruple the passengers. If a flight is delayed a few hours because of how you treat your employees or your empployees are "getting back" at their management... you just cost your mainline partner thousands of dollars in hotels from missed international connections, meal vouchers, compensation, ticket refunds, and left a bad taste in their passengers mouths. Let them cancel some flights for lack of crew. If they want professionals then they should have to pay for it.