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If not, my moratorium on flying may have to continue.
Their pilots are notoriously underpaid and inexperienced.
And they operate under the United or American or Delta logo, but they're hired help, sub-contractors.
Major carriers can no longer draw from the military enough bodies to fill the vacancies in the cockpit.
That used to be the main supplier of the best trained and most competent pilots in the world.
I was one.
We'll go through a rough patch.
Eventually, not too long from right now, airliners will be drones.
You saw it here first.
He's training to be a pilot. Now in his late twenties, after dropping out of school, ignoring the options of being able to go to college, all expenses paid, he's going to pilot's school. He had to plan well ahead for it, to make sure all the drugs were out of his system. 
Aside from the fact that he is a general screw up the part that scares me is that before he was 22 he'd totaled at least three cars that I know about - there might be another one or two I didn't hear about.
Oh man - I hope the airlines are not desperate enough to hire him. I'll be sure to find out what airline does so I will never ever buy a ticket with them - but what about his poor passengers or the people on the ground he could drop that plane on top of? 