“The airline industry downgrading piloting to just another job”
30 Oct | Author: Andrey Deriabin | Category: Air Travel, TrendsAn interesting article by Susan Nielsen, The Oregonian:
Flight delays don’t bother me. Neither do cramped bathrooms, bad snacks, bag fees, even screaming babies. I’m one of those travelers so geekily enthralled with the miracle of flight that almost no inconvenience feels like a real problem.
But pilots who forget to land? OK, that’s a problem. And it may herald the future of air travel, if the industry continues to treat pilots and other essential employees as dispensable.
Two commercial pilots for Northwest Airlines — one from Salem — earned global ridicule last week for overshooting their destination by 150 miles, falling out of radio contact for 90 minutes and nearly prompting military intervention for a flight with more than 140 passengers.
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