AAB "totally quality driven", is that right
So having a new chief pilot training every few months is "quality driven"?
Having the highest turnover of crew in the Gulf and losing 10 - 15% of your experienced pilots every year is "quality driven"?
Sacking good, experienced people for crazy things like not wearing the hat on walk around, drinking Evian, getting married without his personal permission, is "quality driven"?
Having the worst reputation in the entire region for rostering fatigue, corruption and incompetence is "quality driven"?
When the accident comes, it will not come because the planes weren't new and the cabin service wasn't marvellous. It will start, like so many accidents, because of something little and stupid.
... maybe because an excessively fatigued captain puts a wrong digit in the V speeds after 5 consecutive night turn arounds to the subcontinent.
... maybe because a brand new teenage filipino cabin crew was so scared of being "reported", that she didn't ask the CSD if that funny smell in the rear galley was normal.
... maybe because a third-world TRE gave his countryman a pass in the sim even though he made a total mess of his V1 cut, because they were mates 20 years ago back in the air force.
There's so many wrong things at that place I could make a much bigger list but it all comes back to one man.
When that dark day comes, which it will, then AAB will have the most blood on his hands of anyone, because HE is the one who has created that culture in that airline and allowed it to thrive. And in fact has relentlessly terminated most people who tried to make positive changes.