Agree with Guy. BTW, if this was a "news" piece, why was there a need to decipher the apparent story? This is not a forum for "can you figure out what we are attempting to say" efforts. The last I checked, it was an Aviation Forum. Let's move on and hope that Flight Aware will tighten up its editing practices. Was somebody on holidays?

(Written on 2020年 07月 10日)(Permalink)

Look. It is simple. If the reasoning behind the story was clear, why has so much time on an aviation interest website, been spent on debating the quality of the article's writing? Sorry, there is no excuse for poor and sloppy writing that is meant to represent news. Unless this was intended as a mystery article that was meant for interpretation, all that I can say is that the writing was very poor and the editing non-existent. Does not reflect well on any of the stakeholders (Flightaware, Spirit, the author (Simple Flying) etc). As it is FlightAware's website that pointed us to this dog's breakfast of penmanship, it was they who had the final say as to publish or not. Clearly fumbled the ball there.

(Written on 2020年 07月 10日)(Permalink)

And that explains why they jumped at the opportunity to invest in cheap publicity. An event is one thing, having appropriate corporate values is another. Good on them for the "transaction" but have they changed the culture that you reference? Time will tell.

(Written on 2020年 07月 10日)(Permalink)

Jezuz I thought it was me! One of the most bizarre and confusing things I have ever read emanating from what one would think would be an educated author. HELLO EDITING DEPARTMENT ! ! ! !

(Written on 2020年 07月 10日)(Permalink)

Unfortunately there are many lives that were lost with grieving families due to the gov't allowing Boeing to govern themselves. Yes Boeing should be held accountable for deceiving the FAA but the system was set up in a manner that allowed that to happen. Shame on the government for allowing that and shame on Boeing for placing greed ahead of human life.

(Written on 2020年 07月 03日)(Permalink)

There was a large scale model that was being made a while back. Actually saw it in outdoor storage at YYZ - white shrink-wrap protected.

(Written on 2020年 07月 02日)(Permalink)

After seeing your reply, you are very optimistic in saying they have a good chance to survive based in the "baggage" you have mentioned. I sense something will rise from the dust in a few years.

(Written on 2020年 06月 28日)(Permalink)

Plenty of room for them to clean up. Still have a bit of a colonial mindset in servicing West and Central Africa.

(Written on 2020年 06月 26日)(Permalink)

Not sure where you are going with your commentary but with enough military power to kill every human multiple times over, not sure having had the Arrow in production would have made that much of a difference at this point in time.

(Written on 2020年 06月 26日)(Permalink)

My guess is that, during these extremely difficult times for the airline industry, that Brussels will fail or allowed to fail. If much larger airlines such as Lufthansa need handouts, there are signs that a re-build will take place from the post COVID-19 ashes a few years down the road. Not they are a bad airline (I have flown them several times) but the market is in just too turbulent times for them, IMHO, to survive. They may be re-invented in some way with new ownership down the road but until then, , , , sad times.

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