On Mar 27, 10:20 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
Brent wrote:
On Mar 27, 8:29 pm, F. George McDuffee gmcduf...@mcduffee-
associates.us wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:44:56 -0600, cavelamb himself

wrote:

F. George McDuffee wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:10:13 -0700 (PDT), Too_Many_Tools
wrote:
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I wonder if this has anything to do with all those Republicans that
will be flying into the GOP convention this summer?

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Possible, but its also a good excuse to cancel a number of
flights to save JP4, without causing too many ripples, for
example pilot/crew pay. Who can be against "safety?"

Sorry George, but that's plainly ridiculous.

The airplane has to fly.
That's how it makes money.
An airplane on the ground COSTS money.

They were skipping maintenance.
IT caught up with them.

Richard

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Close but no cigar....

The airline makes money flying planes *WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE IN
THE SEATS.*

By restricting the number of flights, the number of people per
flight increases, possibly to 100%, even if the total number of
people drops.

Using "safety" as an excuse avoids problems with gate
requirements, crew pay, etc.

Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).

I had that happen to me once on a flight on the now defunt airline
"Jetsgo"

they had three flights form toronto to ottawa in a day

they delayed then cancelled the 3 pm and the 6pm flight to have one
full 9 pm flight because of "A maintenence issue"

it costs less to give the ****ed off customers a food voucher for 10
dollars each to get dinner than to fly a semi empty flight

But i dont see that as really applying here since that would be more
common and systemwide rather than a sudden inspection blitz

Likely the airline knew they would be in deep if they didnt do
something that they hadn't done yet (Any MD88's crash due to wiring
issues?, Swissair 111?) Smart of Delta to cramble before the FAA comes
in witha big stick even though its kinda scary that maintenance could
even possibly be skimped on

Maintenance cost money.
That detracts from profits.

When is their quarterly statement supposed to come out?

Just askin!

Richard
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Now just why the HELL do I have to press 1 for English?
John Wayne

having two guys looking at the wheelwell and doing nothing for a few
hours costed them nothing compared to running an empty plane

you missed the "Now Defunct" part

the airline went broke 3 or 4 years ago

they didn't manage decent service or on time delivery of passengers
and weren't successful i was glad to see them go