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Great article on pilot fatigue (and a strange RAA comment)

Kieran Daly
 on November 1, 2009 10:40 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
Hats off to Eric Torbenson of the Dallas Morning News for an intelligent and penetrating article on scheduling and pay issues in the US regional airline industry. Another piece of evidence adding to the growing certainty that this is not a sustainable situation.

US Regional Airline Association (RAA) president Roger Cohen is quoted as saying that "there's been very little research in this area". He needs to get out more.

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