Is Mesaba Cornering the 18 Seater Market?

[FN FAL]

http://www.mininggazette.com/news/story/063202005_new01-n0603.asp

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[CA1900]

HA!

You can always count on the media for accurate, up-to-the-minute aviation news.

 

[FN FAL]

HA!

You can always count on the media for accurate, up-to-the-minute aviation news.

How's this for a delio...I got about 9 months or so before I graduate from college. One thing that was brought up in the last class was PIO...Police Information Officers. These are people employed by the police department to act as media liasons. The police have to try to get it right, or they look really dumb.

What if I set up a profit based corporate office as a Pilot (aviation) Information Officer? Think of it as a media/professional aviation advocacy group...in the private sector. I'll have to hire an aviation attorney and privately contract technical consultants from ALPA, NTSB, FAA, Major Airlines, Cargo Airlines, Regional Airlines, Frax Opertors, 135 operators...etc, etc, etc.

What we would do, is either produce a media article that points out how epochally stupid the rest of the media is...or beat them sensless into hiring our company to do their leg work, reporting, proof reading, yadda yadda, so they get it right the first time.

What do you guys think? Can we make this media based corporation work for us and pay the bills?

 

[jobear]

How can you have a pan of propane? LPG only stays LPG at extremely low temps !!!

 

[aeronautic1]

As a former broadcast personality...

... I can tell you that the inaccuracy of aircraft description in the media is do to the "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality of getting it on first and scooping the competition. All medium/large media outlets have an aviation writer and even aviation departments (eye in the sky). But when a crash happens in the middle of the night, whomever is on duty at the time writes only what they can see, not what they know (or do not know). Believe me, they get pounded by emails from the pilot community when they get it wrong.

 

[bri5150]

I always enjoy seeing stories on the news about Northwest Airlines and seeing video of Pinnacle and Mesaba aircraft. I have a part time job and see that every time there is an airline related story. Sometimes I think having an aviation career and working in T.V. at the same time is conflict of interest.