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Despite wide ranging views on immigration, one of the things we do well in the United States is integrate people into our system. Generally, within a generation, families who come here no longer consider themselves Chinese, Mexican, Indian, etc, rather they identify as American. It’s arguably our greatest strength. This is not so in the rest of the world & France is particularly bad about this (their German neighbors aren’t too far behind). Most of their migrants live in borderline slums and will never be considered “French” by their hosts. It’s a thorny issue and I can certainly understand those who are trying to hold on to their culture when the vast majority of immigrants don’t share the same history, language, religious values, etc. But history tells us that a large population of second class citizens in a country tends to cause problems that will eventually have to be addressed. The current French system isn’t working for many of the people who live there & they will eventually have to do something different.

I know that you've been there and done that /s. The military will not ask you to fly a mission with shitty weather, bad guys lobbing exploding telephone poles and fire rocks (tracer rounds lol) at you, in a foreign land 1,000s of miles away from your family. They will order you to. Just like the jab. I hate the Covid vaccine as much as the next guy but dudes in the military don't have the option to punch out just because they're scared. When you fly mission where lives are at stake, shit gets real. We weren't playing video games and listening to Drake (hes a Canadian how gangsta can that dude be? lol) getting pumped up on how tough we are by using our imaginations, we did real shit. Shit that keeps me awake at night. Edit: I bid you good day Sir! (Imagine me saying this with a West London accent). That's a polite way of saying GFYS. Edit 2: There were 18 yo dudes on the ground, carrying guns, looking into the eyes of the targets they had to take out. I'm sure they'd applaud your efforts to help them get home by quitting. Some of them never saw home again and died in that shithole (take your pick which one). That was the last place they saw. No family, no Drake, no internet tough guys. They gave it all. You gave nothing.

Napoleon's best move!!

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!

I’m not sure how I can be much clearer with my argument, but I’ll try…even though you actually kind of summarized it later in your post? If the mishap rate is nearly the same (if not the same?) for regionals as the legacies over the last 10 years then why pay pilots more on legacies than regionals under the argument of safety? If your argument is that regionals are much riskier wrt safety, then where are all the mishaps? As for you never flying on a regional, that’s impressive as many destinations are only served by regionals. Additionally, if regionals are more dangerous then why would the legacies want to be associated with them?—if an Envoy plane were to God forbid crash tonight, do you think people aren’t going to put any of the blame on AA? They bought the ticket from AA, not Envoy. Good discussion btw—I appreciate it.

Well, if you want to correlate mishap rate with mishap risk, it's doesn't matter if it's zero, or 10 or 90. I don't understand the crux of your argument. You seem to be saying there is no reason to raise wages, and there should be no meaningful difference between major and regional pay scales because experience and competence have not recently resulted in fewer casualties when comparing regionals to majors. While the rates may be similar, you can't reasonably argue that the risk of flying with two seasoned aviators is the same as flying with two dudes (or whatever) not long out of AllATPs. All carriers are required to have aircraft mishap liability insurance, and while the required coverage is less for regionals due to the number of seats, pilot experience requirements are a factor in determining individual airline rates. There are great pilots in the regionals, and nearly all of my new hire FOs that have come from RJs have been awesome. But there are some that have slipped through the cracks. All it takes is one. While their individual mishap rate may be zero, the risk is most definitely elevated. They wouldn't be sitting over there if there were more people competing for that position. Better contracts would most definitely make make more and better candidates attempt to overcome the barriers to entry into the profession. I absolutely don't fly on RJs. In at least 10 years, I've never needed to get anywhere bad enough to put myself on a regional carrier. Granted, not just because of pilot experience, but because of the whole experience. And if booking tickets for my fam, not even a consideration.

They just need CNN to come help shape the narrative...you know for the cause and all that stuff.

Cool. I'm always impressed when people claim they condescended to imaginary people in conversations that didn't happen. I wonder how many French revolutions were instigated by people who were non-native to France. Which book would you have the imported rioters read? Maybe they've already read it. https://twitter.com/wokeflix_/status/1675021100730941440?s=20

A new woke phrase I'm actually incorporating into my daily vocabulary.

1. DNP letter 2. 2x Passed over 3. Guard + airlines + still promote But if you’re really hell bent on staying in, then… See Huggy’s post on the last page of the below thread

A little olive oil goes a long way.

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