Southwest's $10.2m fine

[BrickTop]

The hand slap recently given to Southwest Airlines following recent uncovering of a clearly collaborative evasion of safety mandates, is clear evidence of a less than professional relationship with Southwest Airlines senior management and the Federal Aviation Administration.The $10.2m fine is an mear insult to any person of resonable ecomomic competence, expecting them to feel justice in a case of this nature, or the FAA defining their severity of punishment for safety negligence of our nations traveling public. At that price for penalty it bluntly encourages more plausible neglect since in relation to Southwest's finacial status or any other carrier of "Major" stature, it's just good "economic" busniess to risk an unlikely accident in interest of long term economics. There is no better way of measuring or labeling this action imposed by the FAA, than a "feel good factor" to the general public and: An absolute insult to the price of punishment.

 

[737 Pylt]

Brick:
The feds have always looked the other way at Southwest. It makes you wonder what else they were "shaking hands" on regarding the running of their operation?!

737

 

[vixin]

Thats why they have the best safety record then any other airline flying. I guess that was SWA's fault also. Grow up morons. You are a complete idiot if you think YOUR airline isnt or wasnt doing the same. BOO HOO.:bawling:

 

[737 Pylt]

Thats why they have the best safety record then any other airline flying. I guess that was SWA's fault also. Grow up morons. You are a complete idiot if you think YOUR airline isnt or wasnt doing the same. BOO HOO.:bawling:

Must have touched a nerve! I was just reiterating what I read in the press.
Its pretty ironic that swa gets nailed with a $10 million fine for "buddying up" with the faa?!
It just makes you wonder what other "safety related" issues they're covering up!

737

 

[skydash]

Must've just gotten your SWA rejection letter,huh??
Maybe you could make a more cogent argument if you first learned to spell.....

 

[StopNTSing]

Must have touched a nerve! I was just reiterating what I read in the press.

Uh-huh....and we all know how spot-on the media reporting is with aviation issues, right?

Its pretty ironic that swa gets nailed with a $10 million fine for "buddying up" with the faa?!
It just makes you wonder what other "safety related" issues they're covering up!

737

Yep, we're dangerous. Stay away. In fact I've been thinking about quitting a lot lately....while I'm still alive. Hey Brick, think you could walk my app in over there at Skywest?

 

[Kharma Police]

SWA could buy the FAA quite a few plasma TVs and pizza with that kind of money....

 

[Tejas-Jet]

The $10.2m fine is an mear insult to any person of resonable ecomomic competence

"mear"? or did you really mean ..."mere"

I dunno....whats the difference between the two words? Kinda like ..."two" or "too"....

...right?

 

[Tejas-Jet]

SWA could buy the FAA quite a few plasma TVs and pizza with that kind of money....

Hey...those ATC guys work hard...we just like to...ummm..."reward" them for their efforts....on our behalf.

I hear the ATC "Beer and Burger" parties are fun...so I've been told.

 

[FlyinGuy]

What you guys are totally missing the consperacy!!!! This whole thing was drummed up so that we could make 20 mil off the American groundings...

 

[fencitup]

What you guys are totally missing the consperacy!!!! This whole thing was drummed up so that we could make 20 mil off the American groundings...

I guess thats one way to flip it!

 

[BrickTop]

Thats why they have the best safety record then any other airline flying.:bawling:

Lesson plan for VIXIN: research synonyms "then" & "than."

 

[Mach 80]

"The $10.2m fine ..."

No problem. As someone else mentioned, AA essentially paid the fine for SWA by sending or causing so many passengers to fly on SWA.

It's all over the the top politics anyway. Knee jerk reactions and absolute over-kill.

 

[Jim Smyth]

That 10.2 million fine will never be paid. It will be negotiated down or completely done away with. But will the media report that? No way, not sensational enough.

Southwest helped Boeing develop there maintenance schedules and inspections on the 737. This issue was self disclosed to the FAA and it was supposed to have been over last year. Someone thought they would blow the whistle on something thats already be covered. Wow, impressive. Southwest is one of the safest airlines out there and aviation in general is safer now than at any other time in its history.

Now the rest of the airlines have been pulling airplanes out of service and canceling flights. Hummmmmmm I wonder why? Maybe they are hiding something too? Or maybe there in bed with there FAA POI. You be the judge.

Lets face it. The FAA is a bureaucracy thats under manned, underfunded and counts on the airlines to do the right thing. The airlines have a vested interest to make sure that Safety is the #1 goal!

In time this will just be another blip on the radar.

 

[The Victors]

Must have touched a nerve! I was just reiterating what I read in the press.
Its pretty ironic that swa gets nailed with a $10 million fine for "buddying up" with the faa?!
It just makes you wonder what other "safety related" issues they're covering up!

737

What you read in the press??:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: