The Hill: Airlines’ Flight Decks Lack Diversity - "Research shows that minority pilots, including female pilots, are as capable, if not more capable and qualified, than their white male counterparts" (What "research'? Even a high school term paper should give us some idea. Plus the article is saying the big problem is numbers, as if their are thousands of intelligent hardworking highly qualified black candidates out there determined to become airline pilots. Right. Last week it was the shocking lack of black Army combat officers. Just the latest two examples of 'Diversity is our strength!' What sane awake adult believes this relentless ham-handed propaganda anymore?)

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Airlines’ Flight Decks Lack Diversity

"The chief pilot asked me to hire a black female pilot so we could check off a 'diversity' box on a reporting form so we could keep our government contracts," a human resources director of a mid-sized air cargo transport company told me last year at a pilot recruiting event. "Once I did hire that woman, the chief pilot came back to me and said to never hire another one [black female pilot] again. Things are gonna stay the way they've always been around here," she said.

That same day, a captain at a large regional airline said his company probably isn't going to hire black pilots anymore because "they drop out of training or quit after a year here."

Research shows that minority pilots, including female pilots, are as capable, if not more capable and qualified, than their white male counterparts even though coworkers and the public attribute the reason for their being hired as the need to fill quotas. ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/transportation/218401-the-company-isnt-going-to-hire-black-pilots-anymore