” Based on what I’ve read, Colgan Air was a rather slapdash outfit; now the entire airline industry will pay.”
Sounds Like British Petroleum and how the rest of the offshore oil industry is paying for their slapdash operations now. Oh wait, just like the airlines everybody pays for the higher prices in the air and at the pump.
The latest use of bankruptcy laws as a labor cost tool has some rather disturbing results.
What happened to Comair with it being shut down and then being used as a threat to pilots at other carriers to take concessions, and at Pinnicle recently, with pay cuts tied to job security, now is being used by every other “Regional” management to attempt to slash pay of pilots across the industry, ironically in the face of a pilot shortage.
Question; does the average passenger really want the cheapest pilot that money can buy?