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Originally Posted by davidmash
The safety records for US airlines is excellent. The last fatality was on a SW flight when an engine failed. That is the only SW fatality in SW history. Prior to that is was 2009 when a commuter airline crashed and killed 49 people.
Not sure how much better you want them to do.
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There have been complaints about SW's maintenance procedures for some time. The engine bust only killing one person was dodging a massive bullet for them. They are damn lucky they didn't lose the entire plane and all on board. Their recent scheduling panic over a maintenance shutdown was spinned by management as those bad unions sabotaging the company during wage negotiations. I might have believed that had I not heard so many complaints about SW cost cutting on maintenance in the years preceding.
Maintenance is one of those easy targets for the bean counters. It happens in the invisible background and if the planes don't fall out of the sky nobody thinks there's a problem. Until it happens by which time it's too late.
All the marketing bumpf and
pr crap in the world can't make a silk purse of a sows ear. Hopefully someone in their management understands that running an airline is about more than
PR culture.
- Peter.
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