Originally Posted by njd1

Yea, PQI. What else.

Couple weeks back I was in the hotel van with one of our senior captains and he was talking to a former C5 guy and friend who was now at mainline. PQI came up and our captain said he refuses to go in there anymore because PQI management outright lies about the state of the runway to save money.

He said they always report 5/5/5 when the runway clearly hasn't been plowed recently and it's more like 3/3/3. One day he said he almost went off the end because of this. He went to the airport manager's office to complain and overheard some guy there saying that it costs them $7000 every time they plow the runway and they don't have the money for it.

Uhhhh, to that I say, if you want airline service to your podunk town, you plow the f'ing runway every 5 minutes as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if your town goes bankrupt. Otherwise, you can drive your a$$ to EWR. I will avoid that place like an ebola outbreak until I leave C5. If you go in there as CA or FO, you put your entire future at risk.

Funny how the MEC scheduling committee email that just came out today mentions PQI as the top bid avoid.