clansinclair
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Here are a few examples of how you guys at Ameristar are known to operate now or in the recent past:
1) Loose leaf or unbound flight logs: a good trip comes on the heals of a completed trip; flight/duty limitations an issue? No problem, rrrriiippp! Presto chango, a new flight log sheet is produced to appear to comply with FAA flight/duty limitations. Why not just use a "magic tablet"? (The cause of the fatality crash in Del Rio??? Hmmm, one wonders)
2) Ditto for maintenance logs.
3) Ditto for training training files.
4) "C" checks not done in record times, but in miraculous times. This has been directly observed at the YIP facility. (Not even God can do a "C" check in 24 hrs., at least not to FAA standards.) OK maybe 24 hrs. is a small exageration, but the times are "miraculous" none the less.
5) Misrepresenting to customers your ability to complete trips by direct flight legally and safely during the bid process. (Many examples of this, but the dash and splash into the Mississippi River in St. Louis is the most remarkable)
6) Bidding trips at incredible prices, sometimes at less than the cost of fuel. (Everbody wonders where and how your owner gets the money to be able to afford to do that! He must be richer than Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and God! Makes one wonder if being based in relative close proximity to Mexico, Columbia, etc. has anything to do with it.) Or perhaps dubious connections to the oil industry?
If you want to characterize how your management treats your pilots, maintains your aircraft. and serves the customers as smart and efficient, that's your perogative, but you're the only ones in the entire industry that sees it that way. There is one exception to this, and that's Bud Rude at Air Tahoma. You guys are Bud's heroes. That says and means a lot!
Wild accuasations of vandalizing our aircraft? Funny how the only times we find FOD material in our plugged intakes just happens to coincide with the times we've parked next to or near your aircraft.
Your pilots literally risk their carreers and prison time (as well as their very lives, i.e. Del Rio) just to go and work under the conditions at Ameristar. It's no stretch of the imagination to envision a little thing like throwing FOD into the REAL competition's engine intakes. Besides, I said we only "suspected" and "could not" prove it, but the coincidences in timing are remarkable.
Finally, Ameristar isn't "winning out" in the on-demand field at all! No company that uses those kinds of tactics ever wins anything except contempt and disgust. Like I said, "What goes around, comes around." I fully admit the mistake of my/our arrogance, and perhaps we are reaping a little of what we've sown. I/WE accept this. Your time's coming too pal!
Whether or not USA Jet's in "real trouble" remains to be seen. I do know that the auto industry is in real trouble right now, and all of us who depend on their success are suffering because of it. I also know that when the auto industry is doing well, your company isn't their first choice to haul their cargo! SNAP!
1) Loose leaf or unbound flight logs: a good trip comes on the heals of a completed trip; flight/duty limitations an issue? No problem, rrrriiippp! Presto chango, a new flight log sheet is produced to appear to comply with FAA flight/duty limitations. Why not just use a "magic tablet"? (The cause of the fatality crash in Del Rio??? Hmmm, one wonders)
2) Ditto for maintenance logs.
3) Ditto for training training files.
4) "C" checks not done in record times, but in miraculous times. This has been directly observed at the YIP facility. (Not even God can do a "C" check in 24 hrs., at least not to FAA standards.) OK maybe 24 hrs. is a small exageration, but the times are "miraculous" none the less.
5) Misrepresenting to customers your ability to complete trips by direct flight legally and safely during the bid process. (Many examples of this, but the dash and splash into the Mississippi River in St. Louis is the most remarkable)
6) Bidding trips at incredible prices, sometimes at less than the cost of fuel. (Everbody wonders where and how your owner gets the money to be able to afford to do that! He must be richer than Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and God! Makes one wonder if being based in relative close proximity to Mexico, Columbia, etc. has anything to do with it.) Or perhaps dubious connections to the oil industry?
If you want to characterize how your management treats your pilots, maintains your aircraft. and serves the customers as smart and efficient, that's your perogative, but you're the only ones in the entire industry that sees it that way. There is one exception to this, and that's Bud Rude at Air Tahoma. You guys are Bud's heroes. That says and means a lot!
Wild accuasations of vandalizing our aircraft? Funny how the only times we find FOD material in our plugged intakes just happens to coincide with the times we've parked next to or near your aircraft.
Your pilots literally risk their carreers and prison time (as well as their very lives, i.e. Del Rio) just to go and work under the conditions at Ameristar. It's no stretch of the imagination to envision a little thing like throwing FOD into the REAL competition's engine intakes. Besides, I said we only "suspected" and "could not" prove it, but the coincidences in timing are remarkable.
Finally, Ameristar isn't "winning out" in the on-demand field at all! No company that uses those kinds of tactics ever wins anything except contempt and disgust. Like I said, "What goes around, comes around." I fully admit the mistake of my/our arrogance, and perhaps we are reaping a little of what we've sown. I/WE accept this. Your time's coming too pal!
Whether or not USA Jet's in "real trouble" remains to be seen. I do know that the auto industry is in real trouble right now, and all of us who depend on their success are suffering because of it. I also know that when the auto industry is doing well, your company isn't their first choice to haul their cargo! SNAP!
