Procedures Before Take Off
Assume all checks are carried out on board before take off.
Suggestion
For weight and other critical input data could this be input and checked by ground staff with pilots giving last check, thus reducing risk of input error.
Reality
Accidents happen and we should learn from them.
Emirate Business Rationale
Managers in Commerce use blame as a strategy, advising the market place that it was not us, but like in Baring Brothers, someone messed up and we have solved the problem by getting rid of them. Thus it is safe to fly with us.
Speculation
Commerce has always had govt depts by the Sphericals. Look at a merchant bank's luck with competing ABC2 radio station closure, short selling extensions, negative analyst sacked, infrastructure contracts.
If an input error was the cause, I am very sure the authority advised Emirates immediately, hence the "resignations".
Commercial Reality
Regardless of Emirates playing that game, they can be counted on to fix those procedures.
Consumer Reality
If there is a next time the collective consumer body, those that can, may well decide to walk away whilst others, sadly, may not have that choice.
For those who do walk, they will still be vulnerable to human and mechanical failure, which is endemic with other carriers.
What Emirates should do is own up, detail their solution so we all can be reassured and learn from it.
Last edited by Nicolaus Silver; 12th Apr 2009 at 09:08.
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