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Commentary: Safety in the skies is paramount. Don’t cheapen pilot training and experience

Airline pilots with ALPA National picket outside O’ Hare International Airport in support of improved working conditions and benefits across their profession Sept. 1, 2022, in Chicago.

In backrooms and dark corners, airline lobbyists, particularly the Regional Airline Association, are scurrying all over Washington, still trying to undo all the hard work that has been done to make air travel the safest form of transportation in human history. They’re doing this for the usual reasons. They want to try to cheapen pilot training and levels of experience for their own financial gain and expedience. They’re trying to do what is easier and cheaper for them, not what is

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