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I'm lucky enough to be with one of the top three US airlines although at one point I was gung-ho for BA (funny how things turn out).
I was thinking....you know EVERY Commercial pilot has a license from their government, issued after exhaustive and continual testing, that essentially PROVES they're an expert at what they do.
Airline management simply get to show up after some business school "training" and try their hand at managing airline resources.
"Go on, give it a go. You'll never know how bad you are until you give it a try!". I mean, it's not like they're going to injure someone. They'll just hurt the balance sheet. And so they do, and the employees get to pay for it!
And the BALPA club lets them get away with it.
As the great Ron Bain used to say ..."it was ever thus".
Seems to me if we pilots made as many stupid decisions, passengers would end up driving everywhere!
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