Generally speaking, part 121 airlines have planned for this senario and it has happened before. Functioning as a single pilot when the other is incapacitated in order to get the plane on the groung safely is a trained event. The only difficulty might be cross cockpit controls that are out of reach. That said,…

Don’t know what privileges your dear auntie had, but Smisek’s are likely much more grand. Lowly worker bees get to travel “space available”- meaning they get on only if revenue customers have all been accommodated first. You may have noticed lately that load factors have been at historical highs due to capacity…

Agreed. What bothers me is not so much a low-ball figure as how they say they arrived at that value. For my ‘04 STI, it was determined that it had been on a framing machine due to marks on the runners. In fact, the car had never had any damage other than panel replacement and the “alleged” witness marks were on the…

Did anyone else notice the driver of the red one needs to work on his heel and toe?

I hired onto United just after Stapleton had closed. New hires then got no paid housing so I paid by the month at a truck stop motel. Training quality was higher than it is now (IMHO), but housing is now paid by the company. Technology has replaced what used to be done by human instructors- lots of self paced CBTs and…