Originally Posted by
wowzz
I think there must also be a management issue here.
You are quite right. One of the recent-hire pilots on the Colgan Air accident last year, a commuter operation around New York, lived in Seattle, and to report for a day's duty was travelling right across the USA, being accomplished by leaving in the evening on the jump seat of a freighter, changing planes in Memphis in the middle of the night, and turning up on the East Coast for a day's work.
You have to wonder what the HR department of the operator were thinking of, taking someone in this situation on.