I'll wait for the NTSB results, but, if there's a silver lining to
this incident, it's that the major news networks must have been hit
with a few thousand e-mails pointing out pilot salary... In one
afternoon, CNN went from outrage over why such low-time pilots were
flying the airplanes to focusing on the fact that the pilots made less
than the average janitors. Somebody clued them in that you're not
going to get high-time superpilots flying your ass around if you
expect to pay them fast food drive-thru wages.

There's the bottom line that, fortunately, CNN tried to expose:
Americans are only going to get what they're willing to pay for and if
they want bargain-barrel rates they're going to have to expect bargain-
barrel service. Most people clearly still believe that air transport
pilots make doctor's wages. Maybe this will people up.



-c