TAA moves about 270 ton of freight, on 21 flights, 5 nights a week with a dispatch reliability of 98%. All maintenance is done in house through to Check Ds. Can you imagine the management and resources required to organise a Check D on a 20-30 year old 727?
The score is on the board.
These facts, numbers do not reflect poor management or a half baked operation.Three weeks into administration, this world class performance is being maintained and the Check D of VLG goes on. This does not reflect low moral. To the contrary. It reflects a group of people who know they have a viable organisation and are prepared to stay and see the process through to the end.
d_concord, you make a number of valid points. However, you do not lessen my beef with CASA. CASA is 'out of control'. Willie says that 'CASA has a history of being way over the top' and you,yourself, say CASA 'needs to be fair, impartial and consistant'. This is all I ask. The longer the aviation industry keeps bending over and taking it up the arse from CASA the longer they will have their pleasure.
CASA's charter is to 'work cooperatively with the aviation industry to maintain and enhance safety'.(Civil Aviation Act 1988 Para.9(1)(c) & Sect. 16) That is a 'c' for 'cooperation' not a 'd' for 'dictation'. CASA should be facilitating airlines such as TAA. Unfortuately, they have moved beyond to power play.
Last edited by Wingnuts; 2nd Aug 2003 at 13:19.