U.S senators yesterday continued to question the pay and sleeping habits of regional pilots, with the chairman of a Senate aviation safety subcommittee referring to a Washington Post report about local boardinghouses that some pilots use to get rest when making cross-country commutes to work.

The Washington Post wrote about the so-called “crash pads” in a story in its Aug. 4 edition, reporting that pilots making long commutes from the cities where they live to the airports where they are based often bunk with 20 or more other pilots and flight attendants in dorm-like alternatives to expensive hotel rooms.

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