Originally Posted by
ptarmigan
Just curious, what is the incentive for the company for this? They have this data now, and full access. An agreement would just reduce their access and slow it down with gate keepers.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. DW & EL had a verbal agreement that FOQA data could only be identified by the union gate keeper. FDX has wireless and downloadable access to FOQA data cards in airplanes, but the info SHOULD be crew de-identified in a download. If you have a departure/arrival airport (not both allowed) and a time stamp, no rocket scientology needed here to figure out who the crew was plus, how many legs per day does a long haul a/c do? Duh! FDX needs a written agreement between the company and union to protect against any move by the FAA to obtain FOQA data. FDX might be sitting on a potential problem IF the FAA demanded data WITHOUT FOQA protection. FOQA is needed to spot possible trends that might be leading to an incident and is preventable. DW thinks that FOQA and ASAP will be implemented very shortly for FDX. It's been in the works for 10-repeat 10-years. Hope this helps.