Gojets fined??
 

Rumours have it that gojets has been fined $66 million for not doing a mandatory inspection on the landing gear system. The inspections was signed off, but FAA found that they had never been done.

Asked an FAA safety inspector based in STL and he said he couldnt comment since it was under investingation..

Details anyone??

66 million would be pretty stiff ......

I'll start chilling the champagne......

What i heard was that there is a x-hour(dont know the number) inspection and they havent done it once since the airplanes was new.... that was 60 mill. In addition they had signed off that a new engine was put on a plane, but the new engine was still in hangar, while plane was flying.... 6 mill for that one....

If this is true, there will definately be a celebration.

Scum will get whats coming if its true.

GoJets must have hired some "Fired" MESA mechanics . . . .

Mesa mx man for man were good guys overall. Overworked and underpaid like the rest of the employee group. Once again mgmt was the problem in the equation.

When go jet folds you can bet i will bid off for a few days to go to STL and party like its 1999, i might even take my shirt off and throw beer caps into the street in a fit of joy!

I will get drunk, climb light poles, and get yelled at by rent-a-piggies.
By the way, I jumpseated from IND to STL today on the same flight as Miss EH from our TSA class. I'm still hoping she and Miss JC join the ranks of CHQers. :cool:

yeah i spoke to JC not too long ago, she interviewed but decided to stick it out there! I dont know why! Maybe they want to be flight instructors this fall when they upgrade! Hows STL, i am thinking about heading back!

If you come to STL, you won't find me.
I'm IND-bound!

Is go-jet a united express carrier? I read in the paper today that a United Express carrier had a landing gear door fall off and land in a residential neighborhood. Nobody was hurt!

No, they're Continental's 70-seat express carrier.

That would be that fantastic operation called "mesa"....where's newgrad to defend JO's perfect little company? :rolleyes:

Nope, you are wrong. Try United.

Gee, thanks for clearing that up. Clearly I was way, way wrong.
Either that, or I was being sarcastic. :rolleyes:

With the fines the company might try and pinch the employees. Maybe we'll see how well they protect that contract.

I have to 2nd that! My hat goes off to most of our mx guys who do so much with so little time and additional mechanics that are needed.

Yeah, I'm kind of hoping they will divvy up the fine and apply it (as a charge) to their employee payscales.

Did gojet get a contract? I haven't heard much about them lately, but last I heard was that they are in negotiations. Either way, I am sure they won't go under. Although, it would be a good thing.

Hulas would probably sell off the TSA assets before he liquidated gojet. He'd want to get rid of the folks who won't bend over for him.

I've heard rumor they have one in place but it seems no one can be nice to one of them long enough to have them post it here.

I thought I had been hearing online that the go jet pilots hate thier jobs more than the TSA pilots hate theirs

Maybe I read that here
cant remember

no, somehow the gojet pilots seem to always say how much they enjoy their jobs, and how the industry is great to them. I kinda have a hard time believing that given that no-one i've met has nice things to say about that group. Maybe they don't hate their jobs more than TSA pilots because when TSA was furloughing people, they were getting interviews for those nice captain positions @ gojet.

I must be simple minded, I cannot see how the like their jobs.

I know what I have, and I am living a pretty much happy life with that, and there is room for improvement, and it is many times better than what they have.

Who knows

Brain washing?

Don't believe it until it's in writing...

It's called Denial. Stubborn refusal to let reality into their brains. Defense mechanism as first and only response.