Gotta love Gulstream Airlines....

[ualdriver]

http://watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100908/NEWS05/309089950

Airline's safety worried the FAA

GULFSTREAM: Agency had urged revocation of carrier certificate
By BRIAN AMARAL
TIMES STAFF WRITER
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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An internal Federal Aviation Administration investigation into safety practices at Gulfstream International Airlines, which is vying for federally subsidized essential air service to the north country's three airports, recommended the revocation of the company's air carrier certificate.


The FAA never pursued that course of action, but the allegations, including scheduling pilots and dispatchers for more than the legal limit and faulty maintenance of aircraft, resulted in a hefty $1.3 million fine in May 2009.

 

[CA1900]

Man, the FAA is so overdramatic... I mean, it's not like they were putting unapproved car parts on their planes!

Oh, wait... :laugh:

 

[CX880]

The FAA only responds to smoking holes with lots of bodies or cash payments. Look at the Colgan crash. Now they suddenly realize that working conditions are bad and that regional pilots need better duty limits?? It's sick.

 

[ultrarunner]

An internal Federal Aviation Administration investigation into safety practices at Gulfstream International Airlines, which is vying for federally subsidized essential air service to the north country's three airports, recommended the revocation of the company's air carrier certificate.


The FAA never pursued that course of action

Let me get this straight...

The FAA recommended to itself the emergency revocation, and then didn't follow through....

HAHA...

THAT is classic FAA for ya right there!

Idiots!

 

[fly4funcrj]

Friends Against Aviation. 'nuff said.

 

[capt1900]

Old News.......

 

[Kaman]

The FAA only responds to smoking holes with lots of bodies or cash payments. Look at the Colgan crash. Now they suddenly realize that working conditions are bad and that regional pilots need better duty limits?? It's sick.

The FAA is a failed organization from a regulation, surveillance and enforcement point of view. Just as prone to corruption as any other government organization in this country. The Colgan crash was tragic, but nothing happened there that hasn't happened before. Politicians used it as a way to get some headlines. The FAA being chartered to promote commerce AND safety has crawled into bed with industry, and won't act unless they are FORCED to. Pilots and the public are just pawns and suffer at the tip of the spear like they always have. Disgusted doesn't suffice to describe how this industry is being slowly destroyed.