You Should Rethink Flying United Airlines

Townhall ^ | Jan 30, 2024 | Dennis Prager

[drSteve78]

Men frequently are task oriented, single focused, so that flying the plane, with all of its intricacies becomes Job One. Many women complain that men can/will do only one thing at a time, in order, single file. For flying, there are no shortcuts or do overs.
Have yet to meet a woman that doesn’t routinely multitask ALL OF THE TIME. Many of them brag about it. It’s a reason women think that they can text while driving a car. “Wasn’t an accident so far.”
Compound that with Less than stellar common sense among any diverse candidates, chaos and disaster in any color. If someone has primary focus on race, color, genders, then the focus isn’t on doing the job right.
My brother likes to remind that every plane lands eventually, just varies where and how hard. Gravity always wins.
FYI, i met Terri Jones. She can fly me anywhere. Exception to the rule?

[rlmorel]

I often post this graph I created, because it explains why I don't believe females should be assigned to combat duties:

This graph is meant to convey the concept, not the actual mapped data which I cannot say has been done. But the underlying concepts regarding bone and muscle structure, upper-body strength, etc. are facts accepted by the medical community. Or, at least, were before wokeness became the overriding concern.

People say it is disrespectful and misogynistic to post things like this, but it is the truth.

This woman, who as a US Marine, wrote this excellent article which is worth reading, and baldly states the facts:

LINK TO PDF: Women in Combat: The Question of Standards (by Jude Eden)

[rlmorel]

LOL, no kidding. I am surprised that is still a valid statement, but athletics are big bucks, and we don’t want to risk that.

But letting people into areas of expertise on the basis of their skin color or sex, where they could cause the loss of life, such as a combat situation? Well, blood is not worth as much as athletics, that’s for sure.

As a society, we have already decided that DEI and affirmative action is more important than people’s lives, so women who cannot do a fireman carry of a 250 pound person have had the standards lowered so they can be put into that position, so that has to be endured, and hope you aren’t the 250 person who needs carrying.

[Regulator]

“That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color”

Why not make it 100%?

Billions of people on Planet Erf who can be trained to fly. It’s a rote skill, less demanding then a lotta technician jobs.

No reason to have ANY White males up front. And if the 14th Amendment says that ANYONE on the planet is an “American” as is alleged, then why wait? Just fire all the Whiteys.

Isn’t that why our ancestors started a country? To disemprivilege ourselves and our posterity? The Constitution is a suicide pact! Off yerself now and make way for the Nigerian pilots of the future!

[Chickensoup]

Private airlines are expanding dramatically

[khelus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/faas-new-dei-hiring-quota-troubling

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I did that years ago when they needed to get a flight crew from one airport to another about five hours away by car and their solution, rather then "rent a limo" was to delay the flight at the gate for two hours and then forcibly remove already seated passengers from the plane.

I figured if they were that stupid that I did not trust them to maintain their planes properly either despite the assurances of other FReepers that the mechanics were "Union" and so never would let a mechanically unsound plane fly.

[FreedomPoster]

Re: Terri Jones

Individual outliers on various bell curves do not invalidate the information and truth conveyed by those bell curves.

[crusty old prospector]

My dad used to fly for Braniff. Those were the days.

[mass55th]

I haven’t been on a plane since 2006, and thankfully, will never have to fly anywhere, ever again.

[dvan]

And when an emergency occurs? DEI? or qualifications, and experience ?

[drSteve78]

Truth. Thank you.

[Gritty]

DEI obviously trumps everything else.

That's a great way to increase the likelihood of actual "die" happening.

[2001convSVT]

“It will no longer be merit alone that determines who half of United’s pilots-in-training will be”

Merit is the only thing that should determine who is flying the plane!