Pilot Overtime Horror

After all the airline safety problems we’ve seen in the past year, it should be apparent that any wrath with pilots and ground crew is misdirected [“United Forced to Scratch More Flights,” Aug. 9] Rather, the consumer public should be in horror that airline management regularly schedules flights that require crews who have already worked a full shift to continue working into the bleary hours of overtime--with our lives depending on them.

United: Hire some damn pilots.

KEN BURKETT

Westwood