[Seaplaner]

The problem with quotas is that some excellent pilots of color and female pilots (and there are many) will be considered AA hires by folks who do not know them and their skills.

Me, I love flying either in the cockpit or as a passenger.

Airports can be a bit time consuming (and some are pretty dirty), parking can be a pain, but I'm happy in the air and turbulence is an extra bonus.

[Tell It Right]

The problem with quotas is that some excellent pilots of color and female pilots (and there are many) will be considered AA hires by folks who do not know them and their skills.

True that. In my majority black church there are some professionals who open up about work life in our financial small group. There are a few times they've said that they feel like people think they got there by having an AA.

I tell them that in the tech world we care about specific talents and experience (i.e. if you're fresh out of college looking for a junior programmer position, a BS in computer science from a school that required you to build a precompiler would get you the job without experience with me never caring about your race or sex). I don't know if people in other industries look for metrics like that.