I'm less concerned with the time in the cockpit than the performance when there, which according to what's been publicized about the Colgan pilot, was quite bad. This guy was failing left and right and didn't have proper training for the stick shaker.

A WSJ article today is calling out the fact that these guys get paid <20k a year. What they fail to note is that the jobs at express operations are basically stepping stones to get more experience so they can get jobs with majors.