Morgans wrote:


"Newps" wrote

They've been doing that for a long time. Lufthansa uses Bonanza's in
Arizona, some of them have over 14,000 hours on them. When I was at
GFK in the early 90's UND had a program where airlines would send over
zero time students and they would leave UND in less thyan a year as
first officers on Airbuses and 747's. We had students from Gulf Air,
China Airlines and a third one that I can't recall right now. They
started their private pilot training in Piper Arrows and then moved
into Seminoles, King Airs and then finally Citations and Beechjets.


The biggest shame about the whole thing, is that this whole thing
threatens to break a system that is essentially not broken.

All to better serve the big money at the airlines.

It makes me sick to think that I, at the time, supported their bail-out
of the post 9-11 period.

One can hope that this blows over until after the next presidential
election. It would be nice to think that our representatives can think
for themselves, and not allow the package to go through.

The way the Democrats in Congress who now control this stuff are
talking, user fees may die. The airline stooge group, the Air Transport
Association, is now focusing on big increases in fuel taxes.