Originally Posted by
squib
The simple fact that some of you are responding with “occasionally but they work with you” or “they’ll let you off the hook” is just proving that it is happening and takes someone to actually stand up and say no. You guys obviously aren’t doing it when you should.
Squib,
Not sure what you're trying to accomplish with your comments. It happens everywhere to some extent. The majors are typically better staffed and have better maintained aircraft/maintenance capabilities from what I've seen.
I will give one example from my previous reference. Both Ice Detectors failed so the aircraft had to be ferried outside of freezing conditions. Dispatch/maintenance asked me to fly the plane back to the hub and stay out of the clouds. The freezing level was like 10k with partial cloudiness and the highest MEA's were around 6,000 which didn't give me much wiggle room if things got tight. I declined to do it. They said okay and I went on my way. You can decide if you think that was pushing, or not.
Making blanket statements like yours is not really helpful to the discussion at hand, although the whole topic is rather subjective. For all the time I spent there, Air Wisconsin was good to me and I wouldn't trade it for any other regional. Your mileage may vary.