tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post8714132977347392085..comments2024-03-24T10:57:10.838-04:00Comments on Get the Flick: Disagreeing With KrugmanDon Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219887691182501386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-55158987926998526422012-08-23T10:23:58.025-04:002012-08-23T10:23:58.025-04:00…the day before deregulation, the FAA's regula...<i>…the day before deregulation, the FAA's regulations were the minimum requirements for respectable airlines. The day after deregulation, they became the maximum.</i><br /><br />Interesting analysis. I've long held a frighteningly similar view of the FAA's approach to staffing numbers—minimum staffing and maximum staffing were the same number. That's precisely why sick leave usage was unsurprisingly high among controllers. There was no mechanism for approval of a random impromptu day of annual leave once the schedule had been published.<br /><br />LRod<br />ZJX, ORD, ZAU retiredLRodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17181295131853124169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-22425881923153621622012-08-22T14:35:43.901-04:002012-08-22T14:35:43.901-04:00Unfortunately I was one of the McDonnell Douglas i...Unfortunately I was one of the McDonnell Douglas investigatiors on the Continental 1713 crash, and on the American 191 crash. American 191 was my first accident investigation for McDonnell Douglas.<br /><br />We had a name for Continental "Death Star Airlines". Back in Long Beach we had serious issues with how American Airlines was performing some maintenance procedures on the airframes. Given that we were self insured.<br /><br />We were thunderstruck by the crew rotation and selection rules that Continental was using (one of our guy's said that they did not have any rules), given that junior Captain, could fly with junior First Officer. Additionally we had issues with the very limited amount of actual flight hours in type that many of their junior people had.<br /><br />Flight Sim hours were for many the bulk of the time in type, and a simulator is cheaper to operate than a real airframe.<br /><br />But you must remember Frank Lorenzo was running Continental at the time, and eventually the DOT made it clear that he would not be allowed to run any airline, given his track record.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115108165433302681noreply@blogger.com