Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
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Why did the airline crash in Toronto?
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the airline that just flipped upside down on a runway in Toronto has been obsessed with DEI for many years. They seem to be more focused on girl power than on keeping their planes in the sky. Also, the Trump administration might ban food stamp recipients from using taxpayer money to buy junk food. Why isn't that already the policy? The mayor of Los Angeles says she needs to investigate to figure out why she decided to leave for Africa right before the wildfires broke out. And a new debate is raging on social media. Is it sexist for a dad to take just his son on a guy's trip The internet says yes, and the internet is, of course, wrong again. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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You know, it's not easy to find a lot of people who are willing to go back and revisit the early days of Barack Obama's presidency. Conservatives don't want to relive the whole nightmare for obvious reasons. And for their part, Democrats would rather move on, too. They don't particularly want to dwell on Obama's Russian reset, for example, where he told us that Putin wasn't really a bad guy. That kind of thinking isn't exactly compatible with Democrats' current narrative. Nor are Democrats interested in reminding everyone of Obama's promises to lower health care costs or his promise to close Guantanamo Bay or his promise to stop the weather from changing. None of that happened and so on. So if there's bipartisan agreement on anything, it's that Obama's presidency isn't worth talking about anymore. But there is one moment. from the early Obama years that has suddenly become relevant again. And I'm talking about the crash of a Colgan Air passenger plane, which was flying under the brand name of Continental Airlines.
The crash occurred in February of 2009, just a month after Obama's inauguration. It was the fourth in a string of crashes involving regional airliners from 2005 to 2009. 50 people died, including one person on the ground. And an investigation revealed that the pilots, one man and one woman, were overworked and underpaid. They were also objectively bad pilots, at least on that particular night. They weren't paying attention to their instruments to the point that they stalled their plane while on approach for landing. And then when the aircraft warned them of the stall, they panicked and turned a bad situation into a catastrophe. In the wake of that crash, the Obama administration mandated a series of changes that...
taken together amount to a major overhaul of the entire aviation industry. One of the big changes was that all pilots, whether they flew for a regional carrier or a major airline, needed to have hundreds of hours of additional training before they could be certified. The pilots were also entitled to more rest breaks. And there were several other new regulations, too. And for the most part, nobody objected. It was a pretty uncontroversial move. After all, when planes are crashing all over the place, it makes sense to require better training and more rest for the pilots. But all these new regulations created a new problem. Airlines that were already struggling with a pilot shortage began having even more difficulty finding enough pilots to fly their routes.
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