Makulu Baas
"Also what about an employee of a contract company, who leaves , joins the organisation awarding the contracts , then six months later leaves them only to return to the contract company to head up their Aviation section,?? conspiricy ?"
Oh? Please, do tell us more.......... I think conspiracy is the mildest way of putting it..... how about industrial espionage?
"Perhaps we should adopt the same attitude of job protection as the eurozone, especially when last week they approached NAC for aircraft."
Err, that's leaving it somewhat late isn't it?!!! Isn't this contract changing over at the end of the month? How can AA have aircraft in place in Afghanistan before then? Especially given that they need to find them for Angola too.... I wonder what the UN's view will be if AA can't produce in time? If it were me I'd be severely hacked off to say the least.
Current Limiter
What an interesting post, thank-you very much! BTW, would it mean anything to you if I was to say digit minus?
"Well, this certainly makes interesting reading Seeing that the aircraft used by AA in Kenya belong to - yes you guessed it - Raytheon!!!"
I wonder if anyone has passed on all this information to Raytheon? Quite possibly they'd take exception at such facts.
"Just a thought - is it possibly Raytheon and not AA who are guilty here, or does Raytheon even know what their partners are up to??"
I'd be pretty sure they havn't got a clue what AA are up to, I think it's time they did........
Gravitysux
[I]"Ive seen a/c reps virtually throw a/c at Opperators for free until the contract is up and running...??"[/B]
I think you may have missed the point..... AA havn't reduced the price to get a contract up & running, they've submitted a bid which is the lowest because they appear to receive some kind of 'grant', they are a Raytheon aircraft so are, in a nutshell, putting their own customers out of work (doesn't really fit in with the Raytheon ethics quoted by current limiter) & would seem to have access to cheaper spares.
Makulu Baas
LOL!! Good point re the smell currently emanating from Denmark, smells lige pig muck but it isn't (just as distasteful though).
I still wonder how AA would propose to have aircraft in place in time? My spies tell me that they're proposing using a pair of F registered aircraft & a 5Y registered example. Is that in keeping with their aoc / this contract??
What a shame Max Torque doesn't have anything else to say...... his comments were so, er, interesting. I guess he might be back to flying LB around.
V1 Rotate
Do you still make home-videos?
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Anon