Originally Posted by
full of luv
Oh brother... crxpilot if you cannot see that ALG was having a disproportionate number of inflight emergencies over the last few years, fortunately all professionally handled by their skilled pilots, then there is really no way to improve your company. Thankfully your just a cool-aid drinking line pilot that probably has no control in wether ALG prioritizes MX or not so hopefully after their early FAA inspection at least mgmt has gotten the message.
If a company can dispatch an aircraft to a NOTAM'd closed airport and when it reaches said airport doesn't have but emergency gas left, so no divert, well that right there shows a few systemic problems in a company, and it apparently starts right at the dispatchers.
Hopefully ALG has turned the corner and decided that it's going to be an airline with airline type expenses instead of squeezing every last penny out of the operation and depending on pilots using their skills and due diligence to repeatedly bail them out.
Of course we see it. No, we aren’t blowing it off. Yes, it concerns us. Firing several department heads, like our old COO and several others in MX, transitioning the fleet, communicating the issues with the pilot group, recognizing that we had a “rough summer.” CEO and COO stated:
2017 will be focused internally… on improving the operation, fleet transition, and customer experience… rather than the typical explosive growth. So, in my opinion,
they are addressing it! The moment I feel they are not, plan B!
Don’t you think it could be disproportionately high because we fly a disproportionate number of old md 80’s? Yes, they are OLD… old planes do weird things (vast majority of “emergencies” have been on the 80). It is not like flying a brand new 737. It may come as a surprise to you, but I haven’t carried more than 2 MEL’s at a time. Every issue I have had has been promptly dealt with. Do you think it could also be a disproportionate number of low time captains in the left seat for the first time? I think that might be true in some instances.
Not trying to make excuses… I am just stating my observations. It is simply not to the degree of “systemic” that you convey! I worked for a “penny squeezing” regional and it sure isn’t like that!