Originally Posted by
benzoate
The reality with this scenario is the juicers who for years carried and carried MEL’s in violation of the FOM and FAR’s just recently decided to start doing their job. These juicers then decided to go out of their way to document EVERY discrepancy they could find. The company choose to question what they were doing since they had a pattern of never writing anything up. Some idiots you just can’t help and unfortunately the jetblue pilot group has more than most.
You are so right.
It's so sad that people are so
willfully ignorant about many things that they even allow themselves to be juicers in the first place. I blame them for BJ not having ALPA (or an equivalent) since the beginning and for causing multiple attempts to unionize. I blame them for their pathetically low standards, their lack of integrity in not writing things up, and for maintaining their low standards. They are not innocent... they simply
chose to remain ignorant of the facts and they continue to be guilty.
It also bothers me that BJ
tracks how well you follow the CFRs. There evidently
is retribution, cloaked in the facade of "good cop" but still, it's the same thing. There should be no metrics kept on this.
I still believe this is something of grave concern to the FAA. If people are being dissuaded from writing up paint chips or whatever they have a beef about today (which is still the lawful requirement!), tomorrow they will be motivated not to document smoke/fume incidents, engine inspections, etc... This is how it starts. History will repeat itself as it has done many times at many other places in many industries. Makes one wonder why Robin would send out an email asking people to do a survey about the "safety culture" at BJ. Why now? What are they worried about? Are they wanting to use it to prove to someone that people feel their safety culture is adequate? Will they use it to fight back against allegations that they are being unsafe? Remember that survey is not anonymous. Incidentally, I've not heard words from ALPA about whether that particular survey should or should not be filled out.
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