Of course I am not taking the word of an ex-employee, or any employee. I said nothing of 747's.

READ.

Try not to assume.

We've done this before, listed each aircraft, and how long it's been sitting, some of which have been months. We've posted the air turnbacks, and can do again, if you like. The angry little bees that such postings stirred up stalked me to other web boards. Perhaps they'll begin to buzz again. Nothing new under the sun. The maintenance is no better, the job is no better. The magical ESOP that was to grace the masses was just as it turned out, a scam by Neff, a tax dodge, that wouldn't turn into a payday, but a liability. That Neff micromanages is well known; nothing moves or breathes at WGA without his input; his guilt is attached to all, most notably the maintenance, for which WGA is nearly legendary.

A recent post bashed employees at WGA as alcoholics and other derisions, suggesting that the pilot compliment is made up of those who are unemployable elsewhere. This is untrue; the vast majority are honorable, skilled, and experienced aviators, many of whom have been flying the same aircraft around the world for a lot of years, and I wouldn't hesitate to put my kids or grandkids with them. I know many of them; my comments are not about them, and whomever made those negative comments about them spoke in ignorance and stupidity. My comments regard primarily the maintenance of the aircraft at WGA. Maintaining airplanes is something I've done longer than most here have been pilots, and it's something I take quite seriously. It's no overstatement to say that WGA has some of the worst maintenance in the business. Neff knows it. Neff doesn't care; he's operated on a kick-the-can-down-the-road basis for a lot of years, at more companies than WGA. Fix it when it breaks, but just enough to push it a little farther down the road...even if that means shipping an unairworthy engine with a falsified tag on it to another country and ordering the mechanics to flush the large quantity of metal out of the filters again and again and keep running it, threatening them with their jobs if they wont' sign it off. Even that, which is, quite frankly, unforgivable. Inexcusable. Not accidental. From the top down. Neff attends daily meetings, and in those meetings, a rundown of each aircraft in the fleet is given; there is never an opportunity to say anything that happened was out of his sight, done in ignorance, or behind his back. Even at his age, when he sits on the WGA board as owner and board member, and on the ESOP, buying from himself and taking a loss, and using his employee's money to pay it back, to himself...he does everything, directs everything, has his hand in everything, and is responsible for the maintenance of his airplanes...which are typically grounded 50% of more around the world, at any given time.

Wanna see where the airplanes are, and how long they've been sitting? It's public, it's not hard to see, and we've done it here before.