PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH
Veteran
- Oct 9, 2003
- 1,401
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It's one thing to have your Pilot's,F/A's, or Bag smashers go on strike. It's another to have an airline's mechanics walkout. If the pilot's walk, the airline don't fly period. Safety is not affected. When the F/A's walk, the planes may fly but the passengers don't ,because FAA says you must have F/A's to fly passengers. Safety is generally not affected. When the Bag smashers walk, the plane flys with passengers,but their luggage make not make it with them to their destination. Safety not affected.
If an airline's mechanic's walk off the job, safety is immediately affected. The plane's may be able to fly for a while, but sooner or later the maintenance issues will become a huge snowball. You can only "pencil whip" or defer repairs for so long. Scab mechanics are usually the people who other airlines rejected or fired for being incompetent or mentally unstable so if you throw them into the mix the "TITANIC" effect is magnified.
Right now a maintenance "bubble" is about to burst at NWA. They have been "pencil whipping" and deferring repairs for over a week now with unqualified scabs. The flying public is beginning to see that NWA management is a bunch of liars. The public is/has been informed of the increasing near disasters on NWA aircraft. Such as: flying to and from Hawaii with only one healthy engine, airplanes being having to make emergency landings because of hydraulic failures,smoke in the cabin,blown out tires,oil caps missing,etc.
The flying public is seeing that NWA management is willing to put the flying public in dangerous conditions just to save a few bucks on maintenance. They see an airline that is not on time and on top of that is unairworthy. It will take years to undo the damage that this one week of bad P.R. has done to NWA's reputation.
If an airline's mechanic's walk off the job, safety is immediately affected. The plane's may be able to fly for a while, but sooner or later the maintenance issues will become a huge snowball. You can only "pencil whip" or defer repairs for so long. Scab mechanics are usually the people who other airlines rejected or fired for being incompetent or mentally unstable so if you throw them into the mix the "TITANIC" effect is magnified.
Right now a maintenance "bubble" is about to burst at NWA. They have been "pencil whipping" and deferring repairs for over a week now with unqualified scabs. The flying public is beginning to see that NWA management is a bunch of liars. The public is/has been informed of the increasing near disasters on NWA aircraft. Such as: flying to and from Hawaii with only one healthy engine, airplanes being having to make emergency landings because of hydraulic failures,smoke in the cabin,blown out tires,oil caps missing,etc.
The flying public is seeing that NWA management is willing to put the flying public in dangerous conditions just to save a few bucks on maintenance. They see an airline that is not on time and on top of that is unairworthy. It will take years to undo the damage that this one week of bad P.R. has done to NWA's reputation.