Practiced Spin
In the latest diatribe from our Leadership team member GMO, he puts fantastic spin on a topic that only a well practiced Leadership member can.
"We cancelled the 777 program installing Class 3 devices on the aircraft because the industry had moved beyond us and the expense did not justify the gains"
"To try and deliver some benefits this year, and to catchup with the industry we have created a separate project called Flight Crew Digital Operations"
To parse the above:
'"We", actually should mean "I" as the EFB has been his baby since its inception many years ago..
"Cancelled the 777 program", actually this was an all fleet program where some 777's had been wired and eventually all AC would be. Only after the fact was it discovered it was probably not certifiable on AB (oops !! flush)
"Class 3 Devices", these are the "in house" developed EFB's (including in-house software developed by a team over a couple of years) that you now see gathering dust in the file rooms and else where. If you hear a flushing sound when you read this that would be all the millions of dollars going going down the toilet once again on poorly thought out project given to the wrong person on the premise of saving money..
"Try and deliver some benefits this year", this means lets try and save face after wasting millions of dollars by "we" (which means I) coming up with another project name that will save us millions (after we spend more millions on this plan B)...
"the industry had moved beyond us and the expense did not justify the gains", what this means is that years back "The Industry" actually had solutions however in only the way CX can - "We Have A Better Solution that we will develop in house"- which meant we know better, we will go it alone and blow lots of cash only to have the project flop, flush the cash down the toilet and start again.
(and BTW, the same has happened with the A50 eTech log....flush)
Flush, Flush, Flush.. I'm getting tired of hearing that sound.