I was stunned that you have eight commercial air carriers that are--that were, last summer, picking up passengers and flying passengers around the country, that would have had no remedial training program for pilots, of any type.

How prevalent is it to find people spending all night in a crew room, without a bed, before a flight?

Have you evaluated whether that is a unique condition, again, to this particular carrier in this circumstance, or is this something that may be a problem across commuter carriers?

the major carrier, in most cases, does not have responsibility for, or liability for, the regional carrier.

The carriers--the major carriers themselves have their own routine and their own procedures for training and a range of other employee practices.

You make mistakes when you are either ill trained or when you are tired. You make mistakes.

It seems, to me at least, that the safety of the passengers, both for regional carriers and large carriers, should be the overriding factor, versus self-reporting.

I was put out here with almost no experience in icing.

For all scheduled passenger carriage, yes, that's correct.

We'd better get moving here and understand that things have changed in this industry.

Well, your recommendations say, 'Stick-pusher training was not consistently provided to pilots of the Q-400s, nor was it required by the FAA.'

Is that a dispatcher from this company?

Is there one level of safety? I think there's supposed to be, right, dating back to the 1990s?

I believe there are some cargo companies that have a ready solution for it, right?

I'm not sure--I don't agree that the first flight--the first experience you might have with icing should be in a cockpit where you're carrying passengers.

Would that data be useful?

I mean, it just will not surprise--it shouldn't surprise any of the three of us--that two of the people who got in a cockpit that day to fly to Buffalo, one hadn't slept in a bed for two nights, and the other hadn't been in a bed the night…

Are there cases in which the regional carrier is wholly owned by the major carrier and, therefore, subject to identical requirements--training, and all the other requirements--of the major carrier?