Originally Posted by
Navajo31
Had a captain tell me a story of the demise of Eastern. He was in South America someplace with an entire crew - 3 pilots, 5 flight attendents - when they shut down. No provision was made to get the crew home. The captain went to American and asked for eight jump seats. When the American captain heard the story, he had the gate agents bump passengers to get them all home. "No one deserves to be treated like that."
But wait, I thought the AA guys were all Nazi's! Maybe even Nazi's have a heart.
I heard on CNN that the company I was working for was grounded by the FAA because of poor maintenence practices. It seems that the repair station they used for heavy maintenence (in Costa Rica I think) was putting salvaged/uncertified parts back in our airplanes during heavy checks. Entire fleet grounded overnight.
They filed bankruptcy, never paid me for my last months work and called me back a few months later saying they were starting up operations again and I had a retraining date scheduled. "Uh, yeah, I'll be there, when you gonna pay me my lost wages?"