Letters to the Editor
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The purpose of this column
"I want a columnist who cultivates sources, ferrets out controversy, interviews industry bigwigs and asks the unpleasant questions they don't want to talk about."
What you want is an airline industry consumer advocate, a Ralph Nader of the skies. I can see the book "Unsafe at any height". That's fine, except Mr. Smith evidently has no interest at all in interviewing airline executives to ask them unpleasant questions. I can't blame him. And do you really think they would answer? Who is being disingenous now? I believe he said in previous columns that he was not a business writer - if you want that, go to the Wall Street Journal. Probably most people who read "Ask the Pilot" are just interested in finding out why they should not be too alarmed when the flight becomes bumpy. Personally, I would love to hear more of the exotic places travelog stuff. It may bore you, but be assured, interviews with airline executives would make a state of the union speech riveting in comparison.