FYI: In response to the ColganAir accident, the FAA raised training experience to 1,500 hours from about 250 hours.
That means there's no qualified entry-level pilots, which is the whole point of regional airlines (cheap, non-union pilots.)
So what ABX is doing is trying to make their existing pilots cover the shortfall, instead of financing new pilots to work there. It's all about the Benjamins.
I was a computer consultant on the Canadian government research into the ozone hole studies in the mid 80's. It was a real thing, the data was obvious, and mankind came together to do something about it.
What's different about global warming is that it's more difficult to directly link human activity to the root of the problem, and heat is more elusive than a chemical signature you can easily spectrograph.
Of course, the only support you can easily outsource is that which can be script-based. Fine if you're a cable company or bank, not so much if you're a startup.
Outsourcing support for early adopters and corporate users will gut your ability to address feature requests from guinea-pigging users.
This is a very useful checklist for technical founders to:
1) evaluate potential "business co-founders", most of whom are losers
2) evaluate if they're on track monthly, and fire their loser non-technical co-founders if they can't score 4's and 5's. Just write it into the partnership agreement.
No, paying $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a bankrupt company with a 20-something founder, then not monetizing it, makes Meyer one of the worst CEOs in corporate history.
The 3 that come to mind are Oracle RAQ, Galera/Percona Cluster and MySQL NDB Cluster (but FKs are still flaky).
However all work best when the DCs are within a few milliseconds of each other and you have a reasonably reliable Internet connection. (AWS within one region qualifies.)
Most people are still better off with Active Master-Standby Master setups overall.
That means there's no qualified entry-level pilots, which is the whole point of regional airlines (cheap, non-union pilots.)
So what ABX is doing is trying to make their existing pilots cover the shortfall, instead of financing new pilots to work there. It's all about the Benjamins.