Lehman Brothers vs SAS
This week Timothy Pfeil, a two year employee of SAS between 2005 and 2006, has been sentenced to six months in jail for price fixing and joins ex`Qantas cargo executive, Bruce McCaffrey in the big house. Pfeil, formerly of Lufthansa, is just like the rest of the airline cargo executives, mere pawns in the fuel [...]
It Is Not Security We Should Be Worried About; It’s Aircraft Maintenance
As American carriers continue to outsource their engineering to suspect operators in countries where I would not even ask a mechanic to change my engine oil, we are going to see a huge increase in defective planes flying our skies. I have already reported on Qantas moving from one of the safest airlines in the [...]
I Predicted It, But Not This Way!
The latest cheap manufacturing site for large European (please note not U.S.) companies is not Asia or Eastern Europe but the U.S. Unlike greedy disloyal American corporations who are still closing down plants in the United States and moving shop to China, top executives of companies such as Volkswagen, Fiat, ThyssenKrupp and other large European [...]
Airport Security – A Mess
Thank you Mr. Norman Mineta for creating a bureaucracy which would emulate the days, thirty years ago, of how Idi Amin ran his banana republic, Uganda. The TSA, the money that has been thrown at it, the people it employs and its practices is exactly what you would expect if you lived in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. [...]
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