Originally Posted by
OvertHawk
Not sure that washing your dirty laundry in public by making such a PA announcement is the best way to go about it though. That's likely to get the Capt in more trouble than just declining to accept the ADD.
Exactly. Refusing an airplane that is legal to fly by the MEL is one thing (been there, done that, no reprecussions), but going into deep technical details in the PA, alongside with publicly talking about disagreeing with the company... not the best way of dealing with it.