On May 20, 2:00*pm, C Gattman wrote:
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

Well, that may be true, but the vultures are already circling and the
manufacturer and airline are going to be sued...

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