Originally Posted by
newarkblows
blowing a tire and having the wheel, hub, and brake assembly FALL OFF(!!!!!) are two very different things. I think what the original poster was getting at is that Colgan has had a bad reputation for maintenance and an overall operation for a very long time. Almost everyone knows an ex-colgan pilot who does not speak highly of the operation. When they come to their new airline and they realize that there arent any MEL's on the aircraft and if they need something fixed it i will get fixed.... SHOCK! I would seriously hesitate to send family on Colgan airlines.
FO's making under 20K a year, a hiring department that is to busy to check your FAA records???, a questionable at best maintenance department, There old hiring mins were 600TT before the economic slowdown and they went below those on occasion, and the least of my worries is the airplane which has a far from stellar performance record but is forgiveable because it is still working out its kinks. Sorry that i am far from impressed.
In the not too distant past, UAL's hiring mins were 350 TOTAL TIME with a Comm/Instr ticket....and they are a MAJOR airline? Guess they could only hire the bottom feeders with mins like that, right? Nope, wrong. Just as using total hours doesn't represent a pilots skill level, having a wheel bearing give out doesn't make a maintenance department questionable.
