Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
So the fine was only a fraction of the $27,500 per passenger?
OK - does that mean that mitigating circumstances are taken into account when dishing out the fines?
No, personally I think mitigating circumstances should be POTENTIALLY considered. AMR Eagle is owned by a corporation that paid more for the carpeting in their training center then they will for this infraction. If this was Great Lakes we're talking about, I could understand your argument. Having worked there for two decades prior to this, I can see that FAA threat did nothing to alter their operational decisions and thus they got their pants pulled down (but only just enough so we all can see their butt crack).
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYER
Who decides these fines - a panel? Made of whom? Judges?
Are you saying that for any reason the deadline is broken that the maximum penalty should be awarded? It isn't like that is other aspects of the law.
You didn't say where the money goes when fines are given. Do you know?
As for policing airlines....if not the gov't, who?
The airlines themselves? From what I see on this forum it seems that the last people you would want policing airlines are the airlines (management) themselves.
USMCFLYR
My point is that it IS the airlines policing themselves to a major degree, hence the slap on the wrist. Wasn't Southwests supervisory management caught in collusion with the FAA to overlook a lot of things ?
Obviously we disagree about this issue and this embarrassing example of another regulatory faliure of the airline industry due to its incestuous dysfunctionality. I can live with that.
