Comments on: Regional Airlines: Are Pilots Qualified?

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Fri, 22 May 2009 10:30:10 +0000

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By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:13:39 +0000

I sent my major-airline-pilot friend an e-mail saying dad was flying the first leg of his recent trip on an A320, same aircraft she flies. Her reply says a lot:

“From ORD to COS? That is one of the RJs ? Hope he gets there ok….”

By: Kim Welch

Kim Welch — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:22:48 +0000

If by “company”, you mean the management, then the answer is, “no”, they were not worried to my knowledge. The concern was on the part of the union negotiating on behalf of the pilots who would do the deadheading.

By: Robert Mark

Robert Mark — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:44:12 +0000

I made only a passing reference because it came in as a tip.

Was your company worried about the qualifications of the crew when they set up those restrictions?

By: Kim Welch

Kim Welch — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:40:14 +0000

You make only a passing reference to “airline pilots not wanting to commute on regional airlines”. That statement may be a little to encompassing, but it is certainly based in fact. I was party to a pilot union team which negotiated definite restrictions on the US airlines that our employer could use to move us from one location to another when deadhead transportation was necessary to crew a flight, or to get a pilot back to his home base.