Originally Posted by
rickair7777
While talking about facts...
SWA had nothing to do with the engine explosion, it was design and mfg. weakness.
No US airline had any max fatalities or accidents.
Airbus has had issues too, don't think you're immune because you fly a bus. It's sure easy to fly (I'm lazy, I like easy), but when things go wrong it can get weird.
G4 most certainly did have a bad era. There was a whole lot of smoke and everybody in the industry new it long before 60 minutes cashed in. You may have relied on luck to not kill anyone, but that would have run out eventually.
As a pilot, I wouldn't necessarily re-write history just yet... you might doom yourself to repeat it someday (unless you've had a complete flush of management and a change in corporate philosophy). Your bosses didn't do the right thing because it was the right thing, they did it because they got caught.
Wow. Didn't think I'd see the moderators trolling on this site.
Glad to know I fly for a crappy airline that only hasn't killed anyone by pure luck. How's the view from up on that high horse over there? I'm sure your commentary about allegiant is from your experience working at SkyWest and Alaska. I'm sure that entitles you to shoot down our first hand accounts of the safety issues here being massively overblown. Yes, by all means thanks for your input that we work for a lucky, unsafe airline. I'm sure that will steer more business to your airline.
I'd love to see some data on how many issues Delta and American had with MD series aircraft until the end, but wait, they have a PR machine that tamps them down and thousands of other flights on other types to dilute the numbers. I suspect that if Delta was an all MD airline, their numbers would be very close to ours were. But by all means, tell us again how lucky and unsafe we are/were. I seem to recall an MD incident in the Pacific on your exalted airline that didn't end up so lucky too. Don't throw that stone just yet.
Oh, by the way, the OP said "from employee perspective", so extra points for your stellar reading & comprehension since you're not an employee and clearly have little perspective.