I have been told before that the FAA dont like having SQ aircraft in its airspace that are over 5 years old.
Well, I have heard the condition of some of their planes are bad (perhaps even very bad), but I never heard of that FAA "dislike"...
I've been on some really bad SQ planes that would make some 732s feel brand new... but even when ppl tell me how bad some of the things are, they sound REALLY bad because it's the total opposite of the image of SQ potrayed by their
PR machine... take the
PR machine out, then hey, is it REALLY that bad?
If the FAA does what SWH wrote (himself or in accordance to the info he got), then the FAA must have overlooked things for a while watching SQ adverts, duped into believing the
PR campaign, and then got shocked when reality came in and they cried!
PK-KAR