Take the road.
Posted on 08/19/2026 12:22:07 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Daniel Huff, a former White House lawyer, noted in a recent analysis that the drive toward diversity and inclusion in the airline industry has put passengers at risk.
In an article for the New York Post, Huff wrote that President Donald Trump was right to rescind diversity efforts at the Federal Aviation Administration.
That's because female and minority pilots -- many of whom entered the industry amid a drive toward diversity among pilots -- were responsible for half of pilot-error crashes.
Despite making up 10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for four out of eight such crashes since 2000.
"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," Huff added.
Even worse, not all diversity-driven safety incidents even reach the public eye.
"Most diversity disasters leave far-from-complete paper trails. Training failures happen behind closed doors. Near-misses can go unreported," Huff wrote.
"Crashes can be blamed on mechanical failure, understaffing or other politically acceptable causes."
Despite Trump's moves to encourage merit-based hiring of pilots and other air travel personnel, major carriers insist on prioritizing diversity.
A senior Delta executive said in January 2025 that the firm is "steadfast" with respect to diversity, which is "critical to our business.”
United wants half of graduates to be women or minorities, while Southwest still commits to "recruit, hire, and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
Huff contended that "airlines have a moral duty to put passenger safety first."
"Since they lack the courage, the administration needs a strong enforcer to impose merit-first hiring before the next crash," he advised.
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Competence, expertise, quality of service and products is going down down down.
Health care? The people brainwashed in universities to "eliminate whiteness" will be kicking your plug when no one is looking, without consequence for them.
Regards,
So no one teaches/studies statistics anymore?
The quality and skill levels of some of our DEI hires is frighteningly low
Too few chess Grand Masters are black. I’ve read that due to DEI, black players’ pawns can move to any position and take any piece. It’s called Reparation Chess.
Take the road.
In 1994, a major airline was putting women with as little as 400 hours through 737 training in a simulator for a few thousand dollars, then making them a First Officer. I passed on it. It sounded unwise and dangerous, as so much DEI hiring has shown.
My flight instructor, who’d taught at Miramar, used to say that the plane doesn’t distinguish between sex (you can either fly it or you can’t.) Women make excellent pilots due to their multitasking abilities, but not when they’re “Revlon-ed” by putting them too quickly in planes they shouldn’t be flying yet, don’t have the expertise for, or getting promoted due to sexual favors.
It's sad that I had to think about whether this was true or not.
Having been a flight attendant starting from the late 80’s, I can confirm.
Back in the Nineties, I walked off of a United MD-80 because there were two young ladies sitting in the cockpit. My BIL had told me United was heavily into AA and wasn’t looking at white males as employable.
The flight made it safely to RDU without me.
Oooohhhhh... I am sure we have some stories we could swap....
10 percent of pilots, they were responsible for 50% of the errors.
That fact speaks for itself.
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