Posted on 01/26/2026 12:09:52 PM PST by DFG
Three million Americans will board a plane today assuming the pilot earned that seat through merit. They shouldn’t.
For decades, airlines have subordinated safety to diversity quotas.
President Donald Trump rightly recognized this danger: Early on, he ordered the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation to rescind all DEI initiatives and return to merit-based hiring and promotions. But the FAA can, and must, do more.
Federal law makes it illegal to run an airline “without an air carrier operating certificate.
These certificates must “contain terms necessary to ensure safety” and can be revoked if the “public interest” requires it. So the government has leverage. And the stakes are sky-high.
I analyzed every US commercial flight crash attributed to pilot error since 2000: Women and minorities represent less than 10% of pilots yet were factors in four out of six crashes (66%).
The sample size is small. But precisely because crashes are so rare, the few times they occur it’s important to scrutinize who is at the controls; under DEI’s guiding principle of relying on statistical disparities, it’s certainly enough to raise questions.
It’s not that women and minorities are inherently unable to fly planes, but in practice, pressure for affirmative action too often leads airlines to lower their standards to meet quotas.
Today, major carriers persist in aggressive diversity hiring.
Delta CLO Peter Carter declared in January 2025 that the airline is “steadfast” in its DEI commitments, calling them “critical to our business.”
United’s training academy maintains its goal of ensuring 50% of graduates are women or minorities.
Southwest still pledges to “recruit, hire, and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
American agreed not to impose illegal quotas, but that leaves plenty of wiggle room.
The need for action is urgent.
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Hiring an illiterate office clerk to fill a racial quota only results in incoherent memos, whereas affirmative action in places where people's live are on the line: medicine, law enforcement, air traffic safety, etc. can cost lives.
It appears to me that those who support DEI believe that hiring someone for a job automatically implies competence. The DEI supporters are so stupid, they don’t understand that competence is earned, not given.
When my brother tried to get a job at United in about 1995, he couldn’t get an interview because he was a white male, and United was publicly not hiring white males. He got in because my Dad was a pilot, they owned the airline, and they wrote in a nepotism clause, so he got the job, one of the very few white men allowed.
Based on some of the ghetto fight crews I had inflicted on me in the recent past, I’d hate to see what they will be putting in the cockpit
It’s very strange. I’ve never had any issues with any minorities or African American flight crew in the past. It was never even an issue, but the new generation of ghetto DEI hires are horrible
Serious additude issues and entitled mentality
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/grants/awd/pilots
And apparently the government is still providing grants for it.
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