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| FAA Honors AirTran's Safety/Training/Maintenance with Awards
I can rehash too. Your tit, my tat. Remember this one I posted back in September? Maintenance problems? Not according to the FAA:
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keep up the good work haze, but you dont have to look far for good things about AirTran.
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| Didn't Have to Look Too Far and Long for This One
Definately no need to show them all, but this one stood out: Quote:
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Wow, an FAA award? Of course, in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: Quote:
p.s. I never doubted that you could make money by cutting corners, so nobody is disputing that point and you're not impressing me there. | |
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Baker states: Quote:
I promise you AirTran is not cutting any corners when it comes to maintenance!!!!!!! That article sounds alot like every airline in the industry to me. Now if you want to blame someone then blame your precious FAA that you get all your information and reports from. By the way AirTran only contracts out our "C" checks and we do all the other maintenace, but with the hanger in Atl being almost complete I can see us doing it all one day down the road. Is it OK with you Baker if we send our tires to a vender to get re-treaded, or if we send our Avionics boxes (LRU's) back to the manufactuers to get reprogramed or repaired, or how about when we send the engines back to Rolles for periodic inspections so they can make recomendations and changes. Is it ok if we can do that or would you like us to do EVERYTHING ourselves. I appreciate the confidence in our AirTran maintenance program but contrary to popular belief we are not experts at every component on the airplane. Thanks for the boost though. ![]() | |
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| Apples and Oranges Quote:
![]() Hey, I've got a great idea! Why don't you start a ValuJet message board where we can all discuss the way not to run an airline. I'd be more than happy to chime in quite often and point out why ValuJet was such a terrible and scary airline. That way, we could keep all that ValuJet info from tangling up this AirTran site since they have nothing to do with one another. Start a seperate thread somewhere else so we can all discuss the pariah that was ValuJet, but leave the AirTran site for AirTran discussions ![]() If you can't seperate the two, I guess you'd better go ahead and add Eastern airlines to the AirTran thread too since many of their employees, pilots, flight attendants, etc. went on to work for AirTran. Not an official "merger" like ValuJet and AirTran consumated (yes, AirTran was an actual airline before they merged with ValuJet but dbaker would just die if everyone knew that information). But Eastern did eventually end up being essentially "absorbed" into AirTran through the years. Oh but wait, that wouldn't fit your agenda. Those added number of years, flights, aircraft, incidents, etc would skew the numbers for AirTran in too positive of a direction. You prefer to just use ValuJet to skew AirTran's numbers in a negaitve direction, although none of ValuJet's aircraft and very few of their people and none of their practices are present at AirTran today. But Eastern's are ![]() Of course I'm being a little fecitious, but ValuJet is not AirTran just like Eastern is not AirTran. They are simply remnants of two old airlines of which AirTran took the best parts and built the juggernaut of today. Not "impressing you there?" You've never impressed me much of anywhere, except with your uncanny ability to pathalogically distort reality ![]() | |
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| Re: Apples and Oranges Quote:
According to The Wall Street Journal on March 3rd, 2004, AirTran outsources 32.9% of maintenance. Their source, "U.S. DOT from 41 reports, compiled by Eclat Consulting" and is based on the percentage of maintenance dollars spent on outsourced maintenance for one year ending September 30th. Quote:
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Baker, Baker, Baker... come on man your killing me! You can't just put some random precentage up on a thread and not give something to compare it too! And, since we are talking about facts, lets switch to politics really quick (since it is election year!)... Kerry did serve in Vietnam and Bush was just in the ANG! HOWEVER, Kerry was there for three band-aids and a gauze pad (four months), came back home, grew his hair out and protested with Jane Fonda...some how that part of the story gets thrownout when the liberal news networks make up their news! My point is that facts can be skewed Baker!!!!!...just like the Georgia SAT scores! - John |
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| Re: Apples and Oranges Quote:
![]() I think I probably come off quite well anyway, most of the readers here are intelligent enough to see exactly what's going on with this AirTran thead. Cocky? Naaaaaaa, just hitting the nail on the head. ![]() | |
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