J.O.

That report would be more than enough reason to want out of PIA (and the country). The culture of nepotism is brutal.

Same for me but I'm definitely in the "time for a change" camp right now. I'm done with our government treating us like we don't know anything.

It also depends on the questions they asked of employees. If they couldn't give a good answer when asked to explain their individual safety responsibilities, then it's a problem. If they asked them to explain some pie in the sky high level stuff, then this result is no surprise.

Westjet certainly isn't one any more. When I look at fares anywhere they fly, they're usually with on par with (or more expensive than) Air Canada.

What did he say that's untrue? If you had kept reading, you would have read that US airports are funded by Washington, instead of by airline passengers. You'd also have found a suggestion that our airports are in fact less expensive to run than in the US. If what he says is true then that's the first time I've read such a claim. I'm not saying it's true, but it bears further scrutiny. Of course, the problem for our industry is that AIFs make individual tickets more expensive because they're "user pay", whereas airports funded from general tax revenue are paid for by every taxpayer - whether they use airports, or not. Yes, it would look better for the industry if AIFs went away and instead, airports were funded through general tax revenues. That would mean treating airports like other key infrastructure, instead of treating them like a luxury as the user pay system suggests. The question would then be, which political party is going to promise to raise taxes to fund our airports? I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

Very, very lucky!

An E-195 crew performed an intersection takeoff in Belgrade. After being warned by the tower that they'd taken the wrong intersection and being offered the chance to backtrack to the originally assigned intersection, the crew elected to take off anyways with just over 4,000 ft of runway remaining. As can be seen at the following links, it didn't go well. They were lucky to bring it back in one piece - sort of. https://avherald.com/h?article=5151ede4&opt=0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bROGnoXaTs&t=886s&ab_channel=blancolirio

There's a large portion of the GA world that is relying on a single EFB for their navigation charts. The lack of a backup device should be a concern for them but a lot don't seem to recognize it.

I have a similar recollection of events. The term "circling the drain" was frequently used when talking about DHC in the 1980's. The Dash 8 was an excellent development that was dragged down by the inefficiencies of the crown corporation. Boeing definitely helped to resuscitate it, but never to the point where they could make a profit. One thing is for sure, the Boeing that bought DHC at the time was not the same Boeing of today. I often wonder if Boeing would have been better off if it had been acquired by McDonalds instead of McDonnell Douglas.

I flew with a captain from Texas who wore two silkworm pins on his uniform jacket - both earned from bailing out of an F86 when the engine fire warning went off. I recall him saying that the engines in the USAF versions were total crap and that when they got a fire warning, they had about five seconds to get out of it before becoming part of a roman candle.

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The fact that the aircraft was (apparently) still at the gate with at least one door armed is problematic for me. There's a reason why airline SOPs typically have the doors being armed at the start of pushback (or taxi if on a remote stand) - and this is it. I've had to investigate a few of them and the one thing they had in common was something outside the normal routine taking place - like a last minute bit of forgotten paperwork.

There are no duty time regulations for FAs in Canada. Most companies apply the pilots duty rules to their FAs but they are not bound by regulation to do so. The same applies for AME's - no duty regulations are specified.

The culture isn't much better at large bases either. It had started already, but the days of the Three Musketeers (all for one and one for all) mindset went the way of the dinosaur when Onex took over. It's a shame.

I've never paid one of those pet registration fees yet and I don't plan to start now. The day the city can prove to me that they provide some type of unique services for our dog is the day I'll agree to pay it.

I had a similar conversation with a former colleague of ours and it's fair to say it wasn't well received. They were on the negotiating team and they should have known how it goes. I reminded them that whenever negotiations start, the company comes to the table with a given bucket of money and other than assuring the flights are crewed with qualified people, they don't much care how the union decides to divvy it up. But just because you decide on a different pay model that creates more payable hours doesn't automatically increase the capacity of the company's money bucket. It's like buying a pie. The buyer can decide how many slices they want to cut but the more cuts you make, the smaller the slice becomes for each person.

Did he pull a Carl Millard and offer you an "apartment" in the back of the hangar?

I've stayed in that Fairfield and I wondered if the street name had any connection to you!

Sonar discovery reveals grim fate of Amelia Earhart It’s one of the great mysteries of the 20th century, but it looks like the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart might finally have been solved. It comes as an ocean explorer released a sonar image of what could be Earhart’s missing plane at the bottom of the Pacific. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/sonar-discovery-reveals-grim-fate-of-amelia-earhart/ar-BB1huPVI?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=caf8e86687de4b7fa786f6004c160d1f&ei=18

c) All of the above.

While the reporting clearly lacks even a modicum of research or expert consultation, the engine issue is a red herring anyways. That whistleblower report (if true) should be cause for immediate suspension of B737 production and deliveries.

There's a link to a video from inside the cabin and some damage photos over on the Aviation Herald. It's hard to tell the sequence of events from the video but given the length of the scrape, I suspect it happened on the go-around rather than during the landing. But I could also be way off, so take it with a grain of salt. https://avherald.com/h?article=513fc722&opt=0

My review would be the same. There's probably 30 minutes of superfluous chatter that could be edited out without affecting the message.

DeSantis probably threatened to stop allowing them to land in Florida.

that's a serious contender for dad joke of the day.