The point is the airline management has a poor record with the FAA in this regard. Does the FAA wear white coats? Does the fact your airline CEO has a poor record with the FAA make you accuse others of being crazy? Face the fact your airline is a poor example of a competently run airline. They accuse pilots of maintenance issues they spawn themselves through poor management. You must have flown unsafe aircraft and carried them. This explains the disparity between eastern and western. Western pilots are used to colluding with Franke Air in operating substandard maintenance procedures. This explains why the eastern pilots find issue with Franke Air methods. Why didn t your ALPA safety reps address these massive allegations from the FAA? Do they cooperate with management in covering up safety issues until they can be used as a tool against the Real USAirways pilots? The industry story is western carries maintenance that should be accomplished to skew the figures against eastern. Disgusting. Then they back Franke Air again. Perhaps the judge will be made aware of the past record of the Franke Air Group with FAA maintenance issues. Perhaps the judge will agree eastern pilots are not willing to collude with Franke Air as do the western pilots, as the western really do not understand good maintenance procedures. Perhaps this explains the western operating certificate being discarded for the eastern, to try and drop the stigma carried by Franke Air. The western ETOPS was a debacle. Numerous attempts, until eastern straightened it out.
FAA May Ground America West
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P H O E N I X, Aug. 26
America West planes will be grounded unless the airline proves within a week that it has completed maintenance on a quarter of its fleet, federal regulators said Friday.
It was the second time this year in which the nation’s ninth-largest carrier faced disciplinary action over maintenance issues. The Federal Aviation Administration threatened in January to bar the suburban Tempe-based airline from acquiring additional planes until it provided adequate maintenance for the ones it had.
This time, David Gillom of the FAA told the airline by letter that, based on an audit and review, “we have serious concerns about American West’s continuous airworthiness maintenance program.”
Overall, the airline must show it has completed the checks on 35 of its 130 planes.
Airline Says It Can Answer Charges
America West President Douglas Parker and other senior executives were away on a company retreat and couldn’t be reached for comment, but Parker issued a statement saying the airline has completed the required maintenance and can prove it.
