Sountwest'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.

 

[Abernathy]

10 million dollars is a lot of money for the airlines right now.

 

[Soverytired]

Wasn't that 10.2 million dollar fine the largest fine in aviation history for this kind of thing?

In any case, I think the feds COMPLETELY overreacted with American . . . . I think American would have happily paid a 10.2 million dollar fine and gotten a 30 day grace period to "fix" the non-problem on their planes. Instead they wound up spending god-knows how much and the flying public was inconvenienced to the tune of 100,000+ passengers . . .maybe twice that.

In other words . . .Southwest got off easy. American (and a good part of America) got f'd.