The Failure of FAA Diversity

Neil Gould wrote:
Recently, FAA Civil Rights posted:
Today it is record airline delays with a record low employee
morale and disgruntled workforce

Soon it will be body bags and unrecognizable human remains

This notion flies in the face of an NBC Nightly News report a couple of
days ago documenting that this has been the safest decade in aviation
history.

I'd rather be safe than on-time.

Neil



Actually airline travel due to TECHNOLOGY has become
much safer. However, the number of operational errors and
"Close calls" especially runway incursions has jumped
dramatically. Just one midair will erase that false sense of
security. Speak with any controller and he or she will tell
you the rubber band is stretched or the fat man is on thin
ice. Whichever euphemism you want to use the system is
strained. Delays are a ominous sign of a rubber band close
to breaking.

Recently, FAA Civil Rights posted:

Neil Gould wrote:
Recently, FAA Civil Rights posted:
Today it is record airline delays with a record low employee
morale and disgruntled workforce

Soon it will be body bags and unrecognizable human remains

This notion flies in the face of an NBC Nightly News report a couple
of days ago documenting that this has been the safest decade in
aviation history.

I'd rather be safe than on-time.

Neil



Actually airline travel due to TECHNOLOGY has become
much safer. However, the number of operational errors and
"Close calls" especially runway incursions has jumped
dramatically. Just one midair will erase that false sense of
security. Speak with any controller and he or she will tell
you the rubber band is stretched or the fat man is on thin
ice. Whichever euphemism you want to use the system is
strained. Delays are a ominous sign of a rubber band close
to breaking.

As I see it, delays are an obvious sign of a bad idea -- hubs. It doesn't
take much thought to realize that a system dependent on hubs will fail
more often than one that distributes the load. No change of personnel will
alter that basic fact. But, like so many other of our "great thinkers",
airlines insist on "staying the course" rather than address the source of
the problem.

Neil