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Adam how do you meassure safety? To me there is no one metric, so it cannot actually be meassured, which leaves it unfortunatly to perception.
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For a start if an airline adopts industry best practices in safety - this alone will make a pretty big difference. Pitch this against cash-strapped airlines from 3rd-world countries and it becomes fairly obvious. Yet all of these will count for nothing if a flock of birds causes a fatal birdstrike event (knocking out all engines) or there was a mid-air collision such as the DHL 757 and the Tu154 a few years ago in Europe. It can happen to any airline, and completely outside their control, no matter how 'safe' they are. In terms of the recent media scrutiny it has been amazing to see the amount of rubbish-reporting. In particular, QF has been singled out on some of the common issues that affect airlines operating around the world day in day. To keep things short if another airline in Australia have similar issues to QF's and it goes unnoticed you really have to question why QF has been singled out. For example, CASA's flight safety publication includes a list of SDRs (Service Difficulty Reports) http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_asset.../mar-apr10.pdf, and the ATSB publishes weekly summaries: http://www.atsb.gov.au/aviation/week...mary/2010.aspx There are plenty of issues that go unreported, and unoticed, day in day out. Take a look yourself Obviously either the media hasn't done their homework or they are all 'cashing in' to the new found obsession (intended to give them more 'clicks' or 'hits' to their stories). To the uninformed this creates an exceptionally bad (and perhaps unwarranted) perception. And then there's the issue with the Union's claims about poor overseas maintenance standards - the very same used by global carriers like Lufthansa or Singapore Airlines. We never hear the unions warning the public not to fly these airlines, and since they don't, isn't it fairly obvious why they make a huge fuss about these critical safety issues? Last edited by D Chan; 8th April 2010 at 11:00 PM. |
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What about Southwest flight 1248 on December 8, 2005 that killed the boy on the ground. Granted it wasn't a maintenance issue, but it was still an unfortunate fatal accident.
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MESSAGE ON EASTER DISRUPTIONS FROM QANTAS CEO ALAN JOYCE
Joyce has issued pretty strong comments, here are just some Quote:
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It was a great letter from Joyce. He was honest and provided facts that everyone could understand.
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Great PR !
10/10 for Qantas for doing that! 0/10 for the media publishing it all in the first place. Funny how the United Airlines near miss a few weeks back only got a small mention. http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/u...-1225847786869 THE US National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into how a commercial jet came within 300 feet of a mid-air collision with small airplane over San Francisco on Saturday. |
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About time for Mr. Joyce to come out and say something. Him being such an out spoken person, it was only a matter of time to see him addressing the customers about the reliability issues.
The message was well address and clarifies concerns for the travelling public. Only comment is maybe he should advertise more on the schedule of their 747 fleet upgrade to 380. At the end of the day, you can't dodge these kind of media reports, you can only steer how the public thinks about your airline. Final words is this guy really know how to do business. Last edited by Ryan K.; 10th April 2010 at 10:41 AM. |
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If a CEO issued this letter for everything that goes wrong everyday to thier airline, they would be doing it daily. Aircraft are machines - things go wrong, airlines do all they can to prevent them, sometimes things just happen. Joyce isn't outspoken - he is honest when people ask him questions. I think he handled it really well - responding to every delay is over the top and only feeds the frenzy. |
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From my experience, Alan Joyce is fundamentally an honest and decent guy who is battling that ever present balance between customers, employees and shareholders, whilst at the same time trying to bring a 'jobs for life' culture kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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Strange how (and what) the press report isnt it!!
It seems that V Australia suffered a delay of about 18 hours at Phuket last Friday (09/04) due to an engine problem at startup. According to a colleague from work who was on it, (VA20, 18:40 from Phuket to Melbourne), all went well until engine start, at which time one of the engines made some unusual noises. Back to the gate and to hotels for the night, finally arriving in Melbourne at around 23:30 on Saturday night - rather naturally too late to go on to Sydney, so they paid for a short stay in one of the Hotels. And not a word in the press from what I (didnt) see. |
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