Posted on 04/12/2021 2:35:07 PM PDT by Starman417
In a bold move, United Airlines declared that “diversity is at the forefront” of its pilot program and pledged that 50% of their new 5,000 pilots will either be women or people of color. You have to admire the insanity of that plan because it is so incredibly stupid that you know a liberal was involved in its conception. I can just imagine the meeting at United that birthed the concept of making flight deck diversity Job #1. Scotty woke up one morning and wanted to make some changes.
Scotty: “Does anyone have an idea of how to destroy United? I mean really tarnish our image? Come on guys and gals, lets think out of the box.” Voice #1 from the back of the room: “Why don’t we drag a 69-year-old man off of a flight after we break his nose, knock out some of his teeth and give him a concussion?” Scotty, throws Voice #1 a small pack of peanuts. “I like the cut of your jib but that was done in 2017. Remember? We overbooked the flight and needed to accommodate 4 United crew members flying to another city? We had to drag that dude down the aisle and his belly was handing out!” Voice #2 from the back of the room: “Hey lets kill some of their beloved pets!” Scotty: “Done and doner. Remember when we forced that passenger to stuff her puppy Kokito in an overhead bin and the dog suffocated? That dog had a stupid name anyway!” Scotty: “Come on folks, put your backs into it. Give me something. Voice #3 from the back of the room: “Hey, can we force a female to hold her two-year-old on her lap for 4 hours because we sold the kids seat to a standby passenger?” Scotty: “You’re killing me here folks. We already did that. Come up with something new that will really get peoples attention.” Voice #4 from the back of the room: “We could require that 50% of the next 5,000 pilots we hire must be either women or people of color.” Scotty was now excited. He was really tired of putting safety first and now, finally, diversity could play a major role in determining what pilots were qualified to set foot on the flight deck. Woke Scotty finally realized that the pilots appearance was much more important than his/her flight skills. Hallelujah!
As a passenger I think that United made a great decision. Just think of the possibilities. Denzel Washington could be the next United pilot welcoming you on the plane. It doesn’t matter if he lacks the skill set to fly a plane. What matters is the fact that he played an amazing but flawed airline pilot in a movie and really looked cool in his uniform. Okay, in the movie Denzel had a drinking problem, but so what. You know it would be trey cool to meet the dude and maybe share a pitcher of beer with him before the flight. Mindy Kaling would also be a great pilot. She is female, funny and United gets to check off two boxes on their wish list: woman and person of color. What a coup.
I do have one more suggestion for Scotty who salivates about achieving diversity on the flight deck. Why stop with females and minorities? If you want the flight deck to accurately reflect the diverse group of passengers sitting in coach, why not train old people to fly your jumbo jets? I’m 73, and I really want to be a high paid United pilot because I can use the cash to buy a new grill and I’m tired of sitting in my living room watching reruns of Firefly and eating Cheetos.
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I can understand why a business person who “must fly” would take a chance with this kind of airline but will adults flying for vacations or recreation do so in the future knowing the risks?
Who will put their wife and children at risk knowing the planes are built and flown by people who have exploited affirmative action policies?
Diversity got us a Police Officer that can’t tell a taser from a gun.
No way. I was a Delta flyer - not anymore - and my second choice was United. No more.
I’d rather drive. And for international, I’ll take a foreign airline.
“This will result in higher failure rates for their diversity selectees.”
Nope. Pass by any means necessary including just stating they passed.
I used to dream of flying “united” mile and high and all that stuff. Diversity destroyed that dream long ago. This buried it for one airline.
I could see a profitable tiered-pricing scheme.
You want to fly with the former C-135 Air Force pilot with 20 years of experience? That’s $999 for your seat, ma’am
Or do you want the 23 year-old transgender illegal immigrant diversity hire? We have a special - $69, one way.
I’ve always been a fan of JetBlue depending on destinations. If your home in destination airports are a Focus city for them you have some decent options at reasonable prices. They also one of the few airlines that won’t nickel and dime you when it comes to inflate it’s just entertainment and Wi-Fi.
However, that seems to have changed recently and from what I’ve read they will start charging for a carry-on bag, depending on how that works out it may force me to reconsider and go back to Southwest.
I already have an enormous bias against flying ANY airline anywhere, but to United, i give a huge razzberry - PTHWAPP!
My confidence is in no way restored.
Diversity is much overrated anyway. Merit was always a much better barometer of probably future good performance.
UNITED customer service
877-624-2660
“I will not fly an airline that puts the color of a person’s skin, and/or what kind of sex organs they have, over flight safety. I will NEVER fly you again and I will be contacting my congressional representatives and senators to decertify you.”
The elephant in the room is that non US nationalities will now have advantage. So an Indian descent, etc would be hired before a US citizen
Death by affirmative action. It’s not going to be an equipment failure when it comes to United. It’s going to be a human resources failure.
LOL !!!
Don’t most of the newer commercial planes basically need a Crew to start the engines and exercise the radio button occasionally and the rest of the system is pretty much automated these days ?
I have not flown since forever. I prefer to keep that image of the 60-70’s when there was Cabin Service, Tours of the Cockpit while on the ground and Metal Wings for the Kids not the plastic or nonexistent ones nowadays. Where My biggest worry was the Menu: Fish, Chicken or Beef. I was raised to reply to the Stewardess when asked what meal I would like to have and My response was to be “Whatever You have the most of, Mam” That was the standing Family order as NonRev Pax.
“Don’t most of the newer commercial planes basically need a Crew to start the engines and exercise the radio button occasionally and the rest of the system is pretty much automated these days ?”
Nope.
I never dreamed of being an airline pilot due to the lousy working schedule and being away from home all the time, but I am a pilot and have designed cockpit systems. I never found the drudgery of becoming an airline pilot anything worthwhile anyway. Lots of very low paying hours.
He’ll always be Lew Alcindor to me...
Drug users.
Alcoholics.
OCD sufferers.
People with Intermittent Explosive Disorder.
Moslems with suicide vests.
Midgets.
Ghetto rappers.
There are SO may ways they can make the cockpit “look like America.”
The problem with the budget airlines that they make you feel like a total criminal for having luggage. I remember flying Ryan Air in Europe once and they weighed us and also made us open our coats to show that we weren’t trying to wear two layers of outer clothing...LOL!
I’ve flown Jet Blue to Puerto Rico and it was fine, but it doesn’t go everywhere. I’m going to look into Southwest for domestic and perhaps Virgin or foreign carriers such as KLM for Europe (if they ever let us in there again).
In any case, as soon as I have used up my frequent flyer miles, it’s bye-bye Delta. This whole thing is so nuts.
Diversity in the hands of socialists is why america 2021 is what it is, a sane person’s nightmare.
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