Airline Systems Safety
Airline Systems Safety
The national news in Australia has been dominated by the situation in Qantas. If news reports are to be believed, we are being told that morale in that airline is at an all time low for a number of reasons. From an aviation systems safety perspective, this highly indicates the presence of significant latent failures leading to an active failure soon. If aircrews are significantly unhappy and by all accounts they are, then their judgements while flying in command will be impaired and matters relating to CRM will not help. Their operational focus is elsewhere. We lost a national airline (Ansett) some years ago as a result of CASA action for alleged safety breaches and the whole airline was permanently put on the street. It seems to me that the situation we are now seeing, is a long way beyond where Ansett was and yet there has been no comment from CASA. As an aside, my wife and I worked out that between us over a 50 year working period, our combined income was of the order of AUD $6 million. If pay issues exist within an airline or any agency for that matter, then how does the Australian Government and public justify the astonishing sums of money being given to Senior Executives for "performance," when clearly that performance is not evident. The salaries of a hundred aircraft maintenance engineers put on the street overnight would have been about AUD $30 million for 50 years. Are we missing something ?
Last edited by gcafinal; 27th Sep 2023 at 04:05.
this highly indicates the presence of significant latent failures leading to an active failure soon.
We lost a national airline (Ansett) some years ago as a result of CASA action for alleged safety breaches
As an aside, my wife and I worked out that between us over a 50 year working period, our combined income was of the order of AUD $6 million.
It’s been reported in todays press Dan Andrews will be getting $300,000 pension for life. He is currently 51 years of age. I sometimes think our expectations are out of kilter with reality. Perhaps given what we read of QF and Dan, this is a figure we should expect for executives.
Those of us at the coalface cannot hope to get those sort of figures either as wages(QF) or pension (Dan). Food for thought.
Those of us at the coalface cannot hope to get those sort of figures either as wages(QF) or pension (Dan). Food for thought.
It’s been reported in todays press Dan Andrews will be getting $300,000 pension for life. He is currently 51 years of age. I sometimes think our expectations are out of kilter with reality. Perhaps given what we read of QF and Dan, this is a figure we should expect for executives.
Those of us at the coalface cannot hope to get those sort of figures either as wages(QF) or pension (Dan). Food for thought.
Those of us at the coalface cannot hope to get those sort of figures either as wages(QF) or pension (Dan). Food for thought.
As far as safety is concerned, we have been burning the safety candle at both ends in every conceivable way for a couple of decades. Morale, maintenance, support, ATC, basically everything that we come into contact with has been cut to the point where luck is starting to form a pillar of all operations. I’d love to be proven wrong.
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As far as safety is concerned, we have been burning the safety candle at both ends in every conceivable way for a couple of decades. Morale, maintenance, support, ATC, basically everything that we come into contact with has been cut to the point where luck is starting to form a pillar of all operations. I’d love to be proven wrong.
People would talk about it for generations. People would not, however (long term, anyway), stop buying seats on flights
