AOPA Rips Airlines a New One Over Delays

[flyf15]

Thought this was great...

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070828excuses.html

 

[banditdriver]

whoever the F^#k wrote that has obvisouly never flown a plane before.... and he works for AOPA! ha ha now thats funny

 

[Goose Egg]

"Blame the weather (i.e. too hot, cold, rainy, windy, sunny, etc.)."

Funny, but ouch! Someone is bitter. Talk about a conflict of interest!

-Goose

 

[PA44Jockey]

I wonder if AOPA realizes how many airline pilots are members of AOPA?

 

[Hawker dude]

I wonder if AOPA realizes how many airline pilots are members of AOPA?

Umm, I don't think he is out of line, airline Managers are a big bunch of Cry babys

look at the way airlines schedule flights. Slot times, peak times, etc...

that's what screws up the system. plus, replacing large narrow body aircraft with RJ's.

what AOPA is trying to say is quit trying to blame it on GA and business aircraft.

 

[DrewBlows]

Bwahahahahahahaha!! They are 100% right! It's funny (or sad) that the morons running airlines have no clue how to run an airline.

Remember when airline people ran airlines? Is there a CEO running an airline today who isn't a finance guy?

 

[TNPILOT]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

 

[Goose Egg]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

Well, I do, I guess. Kinda decided that I'd rather buy a sailboat than an airplane (waaaaaaayyy cheaper), but I guess I'd like the option to go out and fly gliders or whatever.

 

[dbchandler1]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

Anyone who knows theres more to flying than being a systems operator!

 

[flyf15]

This isn't the airlines vs GA. This is airline management versus the public. They want two things:

1) A scapegoat for their problems that they mostly create for themselves (delays, airports streching to the brink, etc)

2) A way to make more money by sticking it to someone else


GA is simply getting the same treatment that we airline pilots get from airline management on a daily basis. AOPA is doing their best to stick it to them and I think they're doing a good job of calling airline management's bluff (the BS that oozes out of CEOs on a daily basis). We should all be behind AOPA... they're fighting for pilots, aviation, corporate responsibility, and the general public as a whole.

 

[willNOTfly4free]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

I do, and so does AOPA's 412,999 other members.

 

[Geronimo4497]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

You got to fly an RJ how? Must have fallen right into that seat. Ah hell, just flame anyway.

 

[BoilerUP]

Who gives a #$^& about GA.

You will when user fees cause a bunch of 91/135 operators to shutter, flooding the market with many highly qualified, experienced pilots...providing just the opposite effect to pilot supply as you might like.

 

[BcPilot99]

Maybe I am out of line, but do they not realize that alot of the wx delays from ground stops comes from our own F'ing government ......so why blame the airlines!

 

[BoilerUP]

Maybe I am out of line, but do they not realize that alot of the wx delays from ground stops comes from our own F'ing government ......so why blame the airlines!

What?