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When CBS' anchor files her own feature package she likes to attach a the label Katie Couric Reports. She granted a four-minute platform to Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot of USAirways 1549, for his arguments against airline management. "There was a time when the job of an airline pilot was a coveted one," Couric reminisced, illustrating her history with a fictional clip of Leonardo diCaprio playing a conman impersonating a pilot in the movie Catch Me If You Can.
Couric told tales of pay cuts and layoffs and longer working hours. The pilots' union at USAirways agreed to $6.8bn in givebacks five years ago to prevent it from going out of business. Sullenberger argued that the upshot of all these cuts would be a lower level of experience in an emergency such as the one he survived. Couric countered that "despite the harsh economic realities for the first time in jet aviation history US commercial carriers have gone two consecutive years without a crash fatality." The airlines' trade association offered no comment in response to their hero pilot's critique.
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