Bullets found on UAL airplane....

[WNjetdoc]

Bullets found on board -- UAL doesn't care!


Untied.com breaks the report of a former United employee concerning bullets discovered on an aircraft. What did UAL think about the safety implications? Nothing! Plus... other former UAL employees are speaking out: One flight attendant had some choice words for CEO Glenn Tilton, particularly appropriate now that the airline has pulled the plug on its employees' pensions. Gregory Kevakian, defying UAL's legal threats, continues to warn other passengers and employees about the airline. Other past employees, including Tim Hafer, Douglas Niven, and David Lawson, have provided numerous accounts of UAL's wrongdoing with respect to safety issues, wrongful dismissal, and other retaliatory actions (and won their court battles against the airline). Would you board a plane bearing the "United" logo?

 

[boxer]

Bullets found on board -- UAL doesn't care!

Let the flame game begin again and again. People like WNjetdoc, Magsau and a few others on this board are really consumed with hatred for a competitor. This industry has certainly changed for the worse. So sad.

 

[767jetz]

Bullets found on board -- UAL doesn't care!
Untied.com breaks the report of a former United employee concerning bullets discovered on an aircraft. What did UAL think about the safety implications? Nothing! Plus... other former UAL employees are speaking out: One flight attendant had some choice words for CEO Glenn Tilton, particularly appropriate now that the airline has pulled the plug on its employees' pensions. Gregory Kevakian, defying UAL's legal threats, continues to warn other passengers and employees about the airline. Other past employees, including Tim Hafer, Douglas Niven, and David Lawson, have provided numerous accounts of UAL's wrongdoing with respect to safety issues, wrongful dismissal, and other retaliatory actions (and won their court battles against the airline). Would you board a plane bearing the "United" logo?

Nice try, WNjetdoc. I assume by your call sign that you are a Southwest supporter. So now that UA is out of BK and set to compete with your beloved airline in Denver, the best you can do is level cheap shots to try to scare people away from UA.

Yeah, yeah, I know... don't shoot the messenger, right? Well a person who disseminates crap like this is just as bad as the original source.

People in glass houses, my friend, shouldn't through stones. How many bullets have been found aboard WN's planes? I'll tell you for a fact that it's more than you want people to know. It has nothing to do with a security threat though. Air Marshals, traveling officers of various types, and armed pilots occasionally lose rounds from their spare magazines. It happens on every airline. This is why no one has a response. It is a non issue.

These rounds being found only mean several things. Number one, these airplanes have armed good guys on board. (No security threat there, Sherlock.) In fact, UA being the second largest airline has the second largest number of armed officers. And from speaking with those air marshals, they praise UA over and over again for our safety procedures. They prefer flying on UA over other airlines by a far margin. Now whose opinion would you respect more... a disgruntled flight attendant, or a trained professional air marshal?

Number two is that our security procedures and personnel turn up things as small as a bullet. Maybe the question should be why Southwest doesn't find more bullets??? Perhaps your employees are too concerned with quick turns and rushing out the next flight that they don't take the time to search the airplanes carefully for dangerous goods. Now which airline do you think the traveling public would rather be on?

Maybe you can fool your leisure passengers who do not fly often with this kind of misinformation. But any seasoned traveler will see through this thinly veiled attempt to spread fear.

And one more little factual tidbit. There were past instances where employees improperly handled securely transported weapons of off duty officers, in a way that went directly against federal law and established security procedures. Thankfully rules have changed that take employees out of the loop with regard to weapon transportation. So this can not happen ever again. But guess which airline was the biggest culprit. YEP... GOOD OLE SOUTHWEST AIRLINES. And it was a direct result of their rushed approach to following the rules, and pressure put on them from the company to get the airplanes in and out as fast as possible.

 

[Bear96]

Bullets found on board -- UAL doesn't care!
Untied.com breaks the report...

Calm down, everyone ...

It was on untied.com.

'Nuff said.

 

[BottomFeeder]

[quote name='767jetz' date='Feb 3 2006, 10:16 PM'

Yeah, yeah, I know... don't shoot the messenger, right? Well a person who disseminates crap like this is just as bad as the original source.



Cool Your Jetz dude,

It appears the article came from a questionable source. Have you ever thought of trying MIDOL.

 

[767jetz]

Thanks to you and your posts Bottomfeeder, I am quite familiar with what a questionable source is.