It is funny how US Airways blamed the problems on the difficulties of merging US and America West.
Merging or not.... if the plane is unsafe and not air-worthy, it should not fly. It should be as simple as that. Looks like US violated the FAA directives and still flew the unsafe planes.
Jetdudetim From United States of America, joined May 2009, 94 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week ago) and read 1731 times:
Pretty small fines, pretty small fleets affected. Pretty small compared to some.
After 25 years in the industry, I don't think there is a single carrier that hasn't received a fine from the FAA. Not that its good!, but in perspective....its basically nothing.
Cha747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 763 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (3 years 7 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1526 times:
Quoting CatIII (Reply 2): The United one does seem less egregious, especially since they self reported it to the FAA.
Less egregious? The US issue is that they did not comply with AD's and the situations were potentially unsafe. The UA issue was a clearly unsafe issue.
You land a million planes safely, then you have one little mid-air and you never hear the end of it - Pushing Tin
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