Egos or Safety First?
June16th2013
Yes, even today, Susi will be marveled at on Metro TV. The ignorant masses watching in bahasa Indonesia will be told that she is a remarkable woman, bucking the odds, scratching an airline out of nothing, coming from dusty Pangandaran with the proverbial few rupiah in her purse and building a successful airline, earning the respect of businessmen - particularly tall white businessmen from the West! Wow, Go Susi Go! Thanks KickAndy and others for perpetuating the silly saga.
I like in one of her interview how SHE takes credit for picking the Cessna C208 as the ship of choice for ferrying fish heads to Jakarta!
The reality is far different. The plate-throwing "lady" who found her way from various men: restorateur, freezer expert to a Master in Aeronautical Engineering (U of KS) who smooth talks her Indo big shots (especially the ones approved by Washington like Surya Paloh and ironically, Prabowo) and sends her son "Hilman" to school in Naples FL from where he disturbs HIS neighbors with a Harley while she disturbs HERS with a Caravan or Avanti back home; now she is a complete fraud. So you can reasonably expect that the company is too.
Susi Air might have brought in management from the US and hired lots of smart young non-Indonesian pilots along with a few token non-Indonesian folks on the ground (even she can't hire a fully foreign company since her buddy, the Dir Jen Imigrasi would have egg on his face plus it would cost too much in bribes not to mention booked expenses!) but nothing will dispel the facts that one can read concerning the last 3 commercial crashes and who is responsible. Clearly there have been some near misses as well.
Let's not forget the Diamond Stars out of action which Susi claims in the same interview above to be part of the fleet. They were damaged before the charter license came through and then the DA-42 just died and went into mothballs. Nows there's an Arrow with US registration on the deck at Nusawiru. Totally illegal. Any comments Hilman or are you too busy flying into New Orleans, Sedona or San Diego with Ibu's cash in your pockets?
IF
Last edited by infrequent_flyer; 16th Jun 2013 at 08:24.
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